You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishi Kesh Hirway.

Next week, I'm going to be publishing an episode with Stevie Nix and Lindsay Buckingham, about the making of their song Frozen Love from their only album as a duo Buckingham Nix.

That's a song that eventually led to them joining Fleetwood Mac.

So in anticipation of next week's episode, I thought this week it would be great to go back

seven years and revisit the Fleetwood Mac episode that I made in 2018, episode 150,

about the making of Go Your Own Way.

I hope you'll enjoy it, and I hope you'll come back next week to hear the Buckingham Nick's episode about Frozen Love.

Lindsay Buckingham is a singer-songwriter, a guitarist, and a producer.

In 1974, he joined the band Fleetwood Mac, along with Stevie Nix, his girlfriend at the time.

A few years later, in 1977, Fleetwood Mac released the album, Rumors, which would go on to sell

over 40 million copies and become the eighth highest-selling album in history.

In this episode, Lindsay Buckingham breaks down Go Your Own Way, a song that he wrote for that album

about his relationship with Stevie Nix.

My name is Lindsay Buckingham.

Stevie and I had done this album called Buckingham Nix,

and it had sort of made a little dent, but, you know, nothing to speak of.

And one day we were working on new materials, Stevie and I at Sound City.

We were in the small studio in the back, and I went into Studio A, where Keith Olson,

who had worked on both Buckingham Nix and later would work on the Fleetwood Mac album, the first one,

he was playing a song from Buckingham Nix, Frozen Love.

And here's this guy, Mick Fleetwood, just grooving out to the song.

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