Stevie Nicks has clarified an often misheard lyric in ‘Frozen Love’ and apologised to Lindsey Buckingham for teh misconception.
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Last month, the legendary duo reissued their 1973 album ‘Buckingham Nicks’, making it publicly available for the first time since its original release. Now, the former Fleetwood Mac members have appeared on the Song Exploder podcast to discuss their iconic track ‘frozen Love’, in an episode comprising two separate interviews.
In her segment of the episode, nicks described the song’s themes, saying it’s about “two people that were in love, that had a lot of differences and saw the world slightly differently, but had this like relationship that seemed to be, like a gift.”
she went on to compare them to classic literary romances. “I like to think of it as Wuthering Heights or Great Expectations. A modern-day love affair, tragedies. As nobody really loves happy songs. Certainly, I didn’t, and neither really did Lindsey.”
After Nicks wrote the song,she said that she gave it to Buckingham to further develop,with him explaining: “I don’t think she craved my input on that level,and nor did I crave hers on production or instrumental level,either.
“She understood that I was transforming things for her, and I understood that I wouldn’t have had anything to transform without the gorgeous center that she’d given me.”
Nicks then detailed how their turbulent relationship influenced their work, explaining: “Our relationship was up and down and up and down and up and down and difficult, but at the same time, fantastic. And what we