Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are back together – in a way. A week after having triggered a storm of speculation, Nicks and Buckingham announced that their first studio album, “Buckingham Nicks”, will be officially re-issued in all formats, including digital, for the first time in the United States since the early 1980s.
The former comrades of Fleetwood Mac shared a pair of cryptic messages in their Instagram accounts last week who combined to read: “And if you are advancing … I’m going to meet you” – Words of “Frozen Love”, a song from the 1973 light album of the duo. Social media rose with a discussion on a possible meeting, seven years after Buckingham was Taken from Fleetwood Mac.
On Wednesday, Nicks and Buckingham jointly published a video of a display panel announcing the reissue of the album in Los Angeles, announcing in the legend of the post that the first single of the release, a newly remastered edition of “Crying in the Night”, was now available to broadcast.
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Nicks and Buckingham released “Buckingham Nicks” shortly before joining Fleetwood Mac in 1974. It was a commercial failure, which led to their label, Polydor Records, abandoning the pair of their contract. The latest official version of the album was a Polydor 1981 vinyl 1981, according to Discogs, but the disc was never available on CD or digital, although the bootlegs have surfaced over the years.
Now, the producer of premium rhino High Fidelity vinyl records is preparing to release The full album on September 19, alongside notes Fresh Liner by music journalist David Fricke, including interviews with Buckingham and Nicks.
“”[We] knew what we had as a duo, two songwriters who sang very well together. And it was a very natural thing, from the start. “Nicks would have said in a press release from Rhino. Buckingham said that the album” will be held in a way you hope that it would, by these two children who were young enough to do this work “.
The album remastered is now available as a pre-order in a standard edition and a luxury edition, which includes two 7-inch singles, “Crying in the Night” and “Do let me Down Again”. The standard edition is limited to 5,000 copies, while singles are counted at 2,000.
The rumors of a possible reissue “Buckingham Nicks” have been percolated for years. In 2011, Buckingham Tell Rolling Stone That the album was “was a victim of inertia. It’s funny, I spent a lot of time with Stevie this year when she finished her album and we get along very well. We have the intention of handing this album and maybe even doing something with it, but I can’t put any details on it.”
Rhino caused the audio of vinyl remastered from the original analog mistress of the album duo, which was recorded in Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, not far from the display panel announcing its long -awaited return.