“He was screaming at me on the phone saying, ‘You’ve really done it this time.’ And I had no idea what he was talking about. “Irving told me a couple of days later that she’d given the band an ultimatum and either I had to go or she was going to go,” Buckingham told CBS’s Mason. On “CBS This Morning,” he elaborated on that narrative, saying his ousting came as a direct result of events at the band’s MusiCares tribute show in January, when Nicks allegedly believed that he was smirking and snickering during her acceptance speech.

Buckingham has disputed that account in and out of court, saying he had finally acceded to the schedule (with the stipulation that he could do solo shows on nights off from the group tour) and that the band could have hit the road even sooner if he hadn’t been kicked out. Upon announcing that Buckingham was out of the group and Finn and Campbell were in, the remaining members of the classic lineup - Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie - had jointly declared that Buckingham was unwilling to tour at a time the others had agreed to, and that was the reason for the ouster. Superior Court in early October, asking at least $12-14 million from his four former bandmates, saying that’s how much he’d been told he’d earn from participating in a 2018-19 North American tour - which, the lawsuit maintained, he’d agreed to do before being summarily fired. I feel that that legacy, in what the band is doing now, is being somewhat dishonored, and that does bother me.”īuckingham had filed suit in L.A. “What I am disappointed in is that we built this beautiful legacy that was about rising above all this kind of stuff. “I’m not particularly disappointed not to be out on the road doing another Fleetwood Mac tour doing all those hits,” he said. The singer/guitarist wasn’t exactly about to give his blessing, though, to the current incarnation of the group, which is out on tour with Neil Finn and Mike Campbell singing and playing guitar in his stead. I’m trying to look at this with some level of compassion, some level of wisdom.” I’m not out there trying to twist the knife at all. The agreement was reached “only a couple of weeks” ago, Buckingham said in an interview with “CBS This Morning” co-host Anthony Mason, “but now we’re all signed off on something.” Asked if he was happy about the undisclosed terms of the settlement, Buckingham answered, “I’m happy enough with it. Lindsey Buckingham has peacefully gone his own way - with a stop at the bank, presumably - now that he and the four other longtime members of Fleetwood Mac have reached an out-of-court settlement about his dismissal from the group.

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