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Longtime Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham has teamed up with former bandmate Mick Fleetwood once again, with the pair reuniting in the recording studio recently.
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News of the pair’s musician reunion was detailed by Swedish producer Carl Falk, who took to Threads recently to share a photo from the studio where Fleetwood has been working on a new solo album. The sessions have ostensibly also seen Fleetwood working with The War on Drugs’ Adam Granduciel.
“Slightly unreal moment to sit with Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood to play Lindsey the album we have been working on,” Falk wrote. “And to see his genuine happiness for Mick to finally do his own album and offering to play guitar and to sing on it. Can’t wait to finish this one.”
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Another post shared by Falk captured Buckingham in the studio with his guitar in hand. “Mick and Lindsey together again, what a flawless guitar player,” the caption wrote. Currently, no official details from Fleetwood have been announced in regard to the content or release of the forthcoming album.
Fleetwood served as one of the founding members of Fleetwood Mac alongside guitarist Peter Green and bassist John McVie, serving as the group’s percussionist for the entirety of their career. Buckingham joined as guitarist and vocalist alongside singer Stevie Nicks in 1974, completing the band’s most famous lineup, which also included McVie’s then-wife Christine.
Buckingham departed the group in 1987, but rejoined in 1997 as part of the band’s classic lineup reunion. Buckingham remained with the band until the 2018 announcement he would no longer be touring as part of Fleetwood Mac.
“I have sadly taken leave of my band of 43 years, Fleetwood Mac. This was not something that was really my doing or my choice,” Buckingham later explained during a live concert. “I think what you would say is that there were factions within the band that had lost their perspective.”
“It harmed the 43-year legacy that we had worked so hard to build,” he added of the group’s decision, “and that legacy was really about rising above difficulties in order to fulfill one’s higher truth and one’s higher destiny.”
The guitarist was replaced by former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers member Mike Campbell, and Crowded House’s Neil Finn for the band’s final years. Fleetwood Mac would officially split in 2022 following the passing of Christine McVie.
Buckingham’s departure from Fleetwood Mac occurred almost a year after the release of Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie, an album which featured the band’s lineup with the exception of Nicks. Until 2025, it was the most recent collaboration between Buckingham and Fleetwood.
While the music world didn’t receive its highly-anticipated Aerosmith reunion over the weekend, the reality wasn’t far off, with frontman Steven Tyler making his long-awaited return to the stage.
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In January, reports emerged that Tyler’s sixth annual Jam for Janie Grammy Awards Viewing Party would be taking place on Sunday (Feb. 2) at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, with Aerosmith set to make a return performance.
Alongside appearances from Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Lainey Wilson, Tom Hamilton, Linda Perry, Matt Sorum, and Nuno Bettencourt, the reported Aerosmith reunion would have been the group’s first live show since Sept. 2023.
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While performing in Elmont, NY on Sept. 9 of that year, Tyler fractured his larynx, necessitating the postponement of shows on their Peace Out tour. Ultimately, these shows were canceled entirely when the band announced their retirement from touring in August 2024.
Though excitement for a reunion from Aerosmith members was high in the lead up to the Jam for Janie event on Sunday, the result was equally appreciated when Tyler took to the stage for a rare live appearance. Ultimately, the likes of Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry weren’t on hand for the night, though bassist Tom Hamilton was.
Performing with Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt, Tyler’s six-song set featured a rendition of Aerosmith’s “Toys in the Attic”, Extreme’s “More Than Words” with Mick Fleetwood, and “Dream On” with Lainey Wilson. Joined by Hamilton and the Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson for performances of “Sweet Emotion”, and “Walk This Way” (which also featured English singer Jessie J), the high-profile set closed out with a cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Heartbreaker”.
Sunday’s performance was only Tyler’s second time appearing on stage since his vocal injury. In May 2024 – months before Aerosmith announced their retirement from touring – Tyler performed “Mama Kin” with the Black Crowes in London. At the time, the Black Crowes were planning to resume their role as the opening act for Aerosmith’s then-postponed Peace Out tour later in the year.
It’s currently unclear whether Tyler’s return to the live stage could result in anything more in the future, though Hamilton did speak to Boston’s WBUR in January to give an update on the possibility of one-off Aerosmith appearances down the line.
“Steven’s healing process is going really, really well, but it goes at its own pace,” Hamilton told the station. “Maybe Aerosmith will do something in the future, but it’s a big if and the last thing I want to be doing is to try and push Steven in that direction.
“If we do anything in the future, it would come from him,” he added.
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