Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949 in Palo Alto , California ) is an American rock musician and composer . He became known together with Stevie Nicks , especially through their time together at Fleetwood Mac .
Life
Buckingham grew up in a sports-loving family in Northern California, his brother is former Olympian and world record holder in swimming Greg Buckingham . In his school days he played water polo , but broke off a promising sports career to become a musician.
He began his rock music career with the acid rock band "Fritz", which existed for three and a half years, garnered a local following in Northern California and had fans in Birmingham , Alabama . Buckingham's future girlfriend Stevie Nicks was the only woman in the band to sing in “Fritz” .
The band broke up and after a final concert in Birmingham, Buckingham and Nicks formed a duo under the name "Buckingham Nicks". They released an LP of the same name in 1973 , which was unsuccessful, whereupon their record company Polydor separated from them while they were still working on a second album. They continued to play live, but had to earn a living elsewhere until in 1975 a sound engineer produced a demo tape of theirs to Mick Fleetwood , one of the founders of Fleetwood Mac .
Buckingham and Stevie Nicks immediately joined the band. With Buckingham as composer and arranger, Fleetwood Mac became one of the most successful bands of the 1970s worldwide. He brought a musical influence from California into their music, citing Brian Wilson as his source of inspiration. Buckingham was instrumental in the success of the albums Fleetwood Mac (1975), Rumors (1977), Tusk (1979), Mirage (1982) and the 1987 album Tango in the Night .
In the fall of 1981, Lindsey Buckingham released the solo album Law and Order . The preliminary single Trouble was in the top 10 of the US charts and also in the German single charts (39th place). His solo album Go Insane (1984) was less successful .
At the end of 1987 he left Fleetwood Mac after their album Tango in the Night to concentrate on his solo projects, which were never as successful as the Fleetwood Mac albums. This was followed by his third solo album Out of the Cradle in 1992 with the singles Countdown (DE 66th place) and Soul Drifter a year later (DE 53rd place).
From 2003 Fleetwood Mac existed again in the line-up of the late 1970s, since 2014 again with Christine McVie . In 2003 the album Say You Will was released . From Lindsey Buckingham came, among other things, the first single release with the title Peacekeeper , which he originally wanted to publish on a solo album.
Between 2003 and 2006 Buckingham worked on a new acoustic guitar album, which was released in September 2006 under the title Under the Skin . A new acoustic piece by Buckingham called Shut Us Down had already been released on the soundtrack of the film Elizabethtown in 2005 . His fifth album, Gift of Screws , was released in September 2008, followed by Seeds We Sow in September 2011 .
In 2017 the album Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie was released , a feature with Fleetwood Mac colleague Christine McVie .
In April 2018, Fleetwood Mac split from Lindsey Buckingham after internal conflicts over tour plans.
additional
The song Time Bomb Town is in the first part of the film - trilogy Back to the Future to hear.
His song Holiday Road is a leitmotif in the film National Lampoon's Vacation (German version: Die schrillen Vier auf Fahrt ) with Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo from 1983.
In 1987 Buckingham also worked as a producer for The Dream Academy .
Lindsey Buckingham has been dubbed the "great visionary of rock music" by Rolling Stone . Characteristic is its unique, differentiated fingerpicking style and playing without a pick . Buckingham's virtuosity and ability also identify him as a first-class arranger, composer and producer. In 2011, Rolling Stone listed him as 100 of the 100 best guitarists of all time .
He has been married to Kristen Messner since February 2000; the couple has three children.
Discography
Studio albums
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| 1981 | Law and Order Elektra 561 |
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US32 (24 weeks) US |
First published: October 3, 1981
Producers: Lindsey Buckingham, Richard Dashut |
| 1984 | Go Insane Elektra 60363 |
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US45 (16 weeks) US |
First published: July 3, 1984
Producers: Lindsey Buckingham, Gordon Fordyce |
| 1992 | Out of the Cradle Reprise 26182 |
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UK51 (1 week) UK |
US128 (9 weeks) US |
First published: June 16, 1992
Producers: Lindsey Buckingham, Richard Dashut |
| 2006 | Under the Skin Reprise 44359 |
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US80 (2 weeks) US |
First published: October 3rd, 2006
Producers: Lindsey Buckingham, Rob Cavallo |
| 2008 | Gift of Screws Reprise 512970 |
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UK59 (1 week) UK |
US48 (2 weeks) US |
First released: September 15, 2008
Producers: Lindsey Buckingham, Rob Cavallo |
| 2011 | Seeds We Sow Mind Kit 0001 |
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UK82 (1 week) UK |
US45 (2 weeks) US |
First released: September 6th, 2011
Producer: Lindsey Buckingham |
| 2017 | Lindsey Buckingham / Christine McVie Atlantic 560943 |
DE27 (4 weeks) DE |
AT75 (1 week) AT |
CH29 (1 week) CH |
UK5  (4 weeks)UK |
US17 (3 weeks) US |
with Christine McVie
First published: June 9, 2017 Producers: Lindsey Buckingham, Mitchell Froom, Mark Needham |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
More studio albums
- 1973: Buckingham Nicks (as Buckingham Nicks, with Stevie Nicks ; Polydor 5058; release: September 5th)
Live albums
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| 2008 | Live at the Bass Performance Hall Reprise |
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US186 (1 week) US |
First published: March 25, 2008
Producers: Lindsey Buckingham, Rob Cavallo |
More live albums
- 2011: Songs from the Small Machine: Live in LA (Mind Kit 2391; release: November 1st)
- 2012: One Man Show (13 files, download only; release: November 13th)
Compilations
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| 2018 | Solo Anthology: The Best of Lindsey Buckingham Atlantic |
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UK78 (1 week) UK |
US53 (1 week) US |
First published: October 5, 2018
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Other albums
- 1976: Innerview (Series # 19 Show # 1) (Interview Album)
- 1992: Words and Music: A Retrospective (promo compilation; recap 5482; release: June)
Albums with Fleetwood Mac
- 1975: Fleetwood Mac
- 1977: Rumors
- 1979: Tusk
- 1982: Mirage
- 1987: Tango in the Night
- 1997: The Dance (live album)
- 2003: Say You Will
Singles
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| 1981 | Trouble Law and Order |
DE39 (11 weeks) DE |
AT16 (4 weeks) AT |
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UK31 (7 weeks) UK |
US9 (19 weeks) US |
First published: October 1981
Author: Lindsey Buckingham |
| 1983 | Holiday Road National Lampoon's Vacation (OST) |
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US82 (5 weeks) US |
First release: July 1983
from the soundtrack of the film Die schrillen Vier auf Fahrt Author: Lindsey Buckingham |
| 1984 | Go Insane Go Insane |
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US23 (16 weeks) US |
First published: July 1984
Author: Lindsey Buckingham |
| 1992 | Countdown Out of the Cradle |
DE66 (8 weeks) DE |
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First published: August 1992
Author: Lindsey Buckingham |
| 1993 | Soul Drifter Out of the Cradle |
DE53 (10 weeks) DE |
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First published: December 1992
Author: Lindsey Buckingham |
More singles
- 1982: It Was I (release: February)
- 1982: The Visitor (Bwana) (release: March)
- 1982: Mary Lee Jones (released May)
- 1983: Dancin 'Across the USA
- 1984: Slow Dancing (release: November)
- 1992: Wrong
- 1993: Don't Look Down
- 1996: Twisted (with Stevie Nicks )
- 2008: Did You Miss Me
- 2008: Gift of Screws EP (5 files)
- 2008: Love Runs Deeper
- 2011: In Our Own Time
- 2011: When She Comes Down
- 2011: That's the Way That Love Goes
- 2011: Illumination
- 2011: End of Time
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Cameron Crowe: The True Life Confessions of Fleetwood Mac . In: Rolling Stone , March 24, 1977, issue 235
- ↑ Fleetwood Mac separates from guitarist Buckingham. Retrieved April 10, 2018 .
- ↑ 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 18, 2015, accessed August 8, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c d Chart sources: DE AT CH UK Billboard Hot 100 Billboard 200
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
Web links
- Official website
- Lindsey Buckingham at Allmusic (English)
- Lindsey Buckingham at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Buckingham, Lindsey |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Buckingham, Lindsey Adams (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American rock musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palo Alto , California , United States |