{"id":30082,"date":"2024-08-07T15:05:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-7-1987-lindsey-buckingham-quits-fleetwood-mac\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T15:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T15:05:46","slug":"on-this-day-aug-7-1987-lindsey-buckingham-quits-fleetwood-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-7-1987-lindsey-buckingham-quits-fleetwood-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Aug. 7, 1987: Lindsey Buckingham quits Fleetwood Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-06\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag_0.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Aug. 7, 1987 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Lindsey Buckingham\u00a0<\/strong>quit\u00a0<strong>Fleetwood Mac<\/strong>, one day after a contentious group meeting at\u00a0<strong>Christine McVie<\/strong>\u2019s house led to a physical altercation between him and\u00a0<strong>Stevie Nicks<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With a tour starting in a month, the band replaced Lindsey with\u00a0<strong>Billy Burnette\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Rick Vito\u00a0<\/strong>and hit the road for the Shake the Cage Tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Buckingham would eventually return to Fleetwood Mac when they reunited in 1993 to perform \u201cDon\u2019t Stop\u201d at President\u00a0<strong>Bill Clinton<\/strong>\u2019s inauguration. They then reunited in 1997 for a live concert, which was recorded for the live album\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Dance<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\ufeff and followed by an arena tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Buckingham remained with Fleetwood Mac until 2018, when he was fired over a disagreement about touring. He was again replaced by two guitarists,\u00a0<strong>Crowded House<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Neil Finn\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers<\/strong>\u2019\u00a0<strong>Mike Campbell<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The current future of Fleetwood Mac is uncertain. In fact,\u00a0Nicks recently shared in an interview that she\u00a0didn&#8217;t think the band\u00a0could go on following the 2023 death of McVie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Aug. 7, 1987 &#8230; Lindsey Buckingham\u00a0quit\u00a0Fleetwood Mac, one day after a contentious group meeting at\u00a0Christine McVie\u2019s house led to a physical altercation between him and\u00a0Stevie Nicks. With a tour starting in a month, the band replaced Lindsey with\u00a0Billy Burnette\u00a0and\u00a0Rick Vito\u00a0and hit the road for the Shake the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-7-1987-lindsey-buckingham-quits-fleetwood-mac\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}