Fleetwood Mac have responded to recent reports that they would be reuniting to perform at J.K. Rowling’s 60th birthday party.
The band have not played together since a children’s hospital benefit concert in San Francisco in November 2019, and it has been widely thought that any chance of a reunion was unlikely due to Christine McVie’s passing in 2022.
However, a report in the Daily Mail on Saturday (September 20) suggested that the Harry Potter author was planning on hiring them to play at her two-day 60th birthday party later this year.
Representatives for the band were quick to respond to the speculation, telling Rolling Stone that “this is categorically false” and even stating that it is “not in the realm of true”.
In April 2018, it was announced that Lindsey Buckingham had been dismissed from the band following what was described as “a disagreement over the band’s upcoming tour”. They went on to tour without him in 2018 and 2019, with Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell and Crowded House’s Neil Finn filling in for Buckingham.
Following the end of that tour, the band became dormant, and after McVie’s death in 2022, Stevie Nicks said there was “no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together” without her.
Similarly, Mick Fleetwood said in 2023 that he believed “the line in the sand has been drawn with the loss of Chris”, although he did add: “But then we’ve all said that before.”
Even if a Fleetwood Mac reunion does not appear to be on the cards, Nicks and Buckingham fuelled fresh speculation this month about a possible reunion of their Buckingham Nicks duo.
Just weeks after confirming the re-release of their self-titled 1973 album, the former bandmates shared a joint Instagram post on September 5 that featured an old clip of the two onstage.
In the video, Nicks sings the opening lyrics of their 1973 track ‘Frozen Love’: “You may not be as strong as me, and I may not care to teach you.” She then trails off before laughing: “That’s all I remember.” Their latest post was captioned: “We remember the rest now.”
Elsewhere, Stevie Nicks has said she’s working on a new album, saying it was made up of “real stories, memories of mine, of fantastic men”.
This week, meanwhile, Fleetwood and Buckingham teamed up with Miley Cyrus on her new single ‘Secrets’, which is part of the deluxe edition of her latest album ‘Something Beautiful’. Listen to the track above.
