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More Fleetwood Mac Gossip
By Kyle | July 3, 2007
Here’s more on the Fleetwood Mac memoir “Storms,” by a longtime ex-girlfriend of the band’s Lindsey Buckingham. Author Carol Ann Harris, who says that with the exception of one brief chat she’s never spoken about her years with the band before, writes that Buckingham’s previous girlfriend Stevie Nicks “transferred her feelings of rage from her past lover” to her and was incensed at having to sing the nasty lyrics Buckingham had written in dismissal of her, “Go Your Own Way.”
Nicks once wandered offstage to grab Harris in mid-concert, when Nicks was supposed to be singing “World Turning,” and “gripped my upper arm like a claw. I could smell the alcohol on her breath as she started to scream at me that I was evil. Evil, evil, evil! She hated me, she said. She screeched that she was never going to allow Lindsey to marry me.”
After Buckingham suffered a ten-minute grand mal seizure the morning before a 1977 show in Philadelphia, Harris thought he was dying. But Mick Fleetwood resisted taking Buckingham to a hospital, saying that Lindsey would be “fine” when he woke up and he wanted to ask him if he could play the show after his “little attack.” Buckingham did indeed go on, with an ambulance waiting, but at one point stopped, put his head down and leaned against a speaker. Afterward, Nicks rushed up to Harris and said, “I know just how you must be feeling! My poodle Jenny  I just love her to pieces  got shut inside the sunroom of my house in Phoenix and she almost died!” Buckingham, told of this, later said, “That woman’s wacko, I swear. Even for her, that’s pretty out there.”
Buckingham could be pretty heartless himself, though; after Harris suffered a miscarriage of their child, not having known she was pregnant in the first place, she says Buckingham’s reaction was “no words of consolation, none of concern.” Instead he delivered a ten-minute tirade of accusations that I was hiding a pregnancy from him. And to Lindsey that seemed the ultimate betrayal.”
