Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks were fresh Los Angeles transplants when they created their first and only collaborative album as a duo, 1973’s Buckingham Nicks . Released in September of that year, the album flopped and went mostly ignored by the public. One day, Mick Fleetwood stumbled upon one of Buckingham and Nicks’ recordings — “Frozen Love” — as his band wrestled with another lineup change, and he was quickly won over. The songwriting duo officially joined at the start of 1975, immediately contributed new songs to the band’s self-titled rebirth, and the rest is history.

But the process of making Buckingham Nicks , when the two were just beginning to realize their songwriting partnership, was less miraculous. According to the pair, Nicks took on the breadwinner role at

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