“Frozen Love”
On September 5, 1973, the primary and solely Buckingham Nicks album was launched. It wasn’t an enormous hit, however it was how the world was first launched to the music of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, earlier than they went on to turn out to be members of Fleetwood Mac. Their time collectively in Fleetwood Mac led to a number of the best-selling, most critically acclaimed, and most influential albums of all time. Their particular person skills, their musical chemistry collectively, and the ups and downs of their romantic relationship all finally grew to become legendary.
And but, regardless of all that, the Buckingham Nicks album went out of print not lengthy after it got here out. For over 50 years, it wasn’t obtainable, till it lastly received re-mastered and re-released in September 2025. So for this episode, I spoke to each Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham concerning the making of one of many songs from that album, referred to as “Frozen Love.” It’s the one music on the album the place they’re credited as co-writers, and it’s the music that led Mick Fleetwood to ask Lindsey Buckingham to hitch Fleetwood Mac. However Lindsey would solely be a part of if Stevie might, too, and that’s how that story started. So this episode is a few starting and an ending. It’s the story of how Stevie and Lindsey first met, and the way they made “Frozen Love,” and the way that music actually led to the top of their band.
I additionally wish to point out that not solely was Buckingham Nicks out of print for all these a long time, nobody has heard the remoted tracks that you simply’re about to listen to. To make this episode, there was an epic seek for the unique grasp tape from Sound Metropolis, the studio the place they recorded the album with producer Keith Olsen. It took months, however the tape was lastly tracked down and digitized, and it feels very particular to have the ability to current this for the primary time right here, together with the recollections and tales from Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.
You should buy or stream the remastered album right here, and you should buy or stream “Frozen Love” right here.
Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
Gary Hodges – drums
Buckingham Nicks (album)
“California Dreamin” – The Mamas & The Papas
Fritz – members Javier Pacheco (songwriting) and Bob Aguirre (drums)
Chicago, Fillmore West, and Jimi Hendrix
James Taylor and Joni Mitchell
Wuthering Heights and Nice Expectations
Jimmy Web page, Led Zeppelin, and “Stairway to Heaven”
Joe Gottfried – proprietor of Sound Metropolis Studios