Stevie Nicks Was Left Furious After A Song About Lindsey Buckingham Was Cut From The Iconic Rumours Album

Summary

• Stevie Nicks wrote the song "Silver Springs" to express her anger towards Lindsey Buckingham and wanted it to be a powerful message to him.
• Nicks and Buckingham performed "Silver Springs" together for a MTV special, which was a magical and deep performance for them.
• Nicks named the song "Silver Springs" after seeing a freeway sign for Silver Springs, Maryland and loved the sound of it. She also initially wanted the song on Fleetwood Mac's album "Rumours," but it was cut.

What has Stevie Nicks revealed about Fleetwood Mac's Silver Springs? The iconic band Fleetwood Mac put out numerous hit songs over the decades. The band also had multiple members quit, like Jeremy Spencer, who was speculated to have been kidnapped then brainwashed by a cult. Many of the band's members have also done well financially over the years.

One of the band's most famous albums, Rumours, was filled with iconic songs. However, there was one song that band member Stevie Nicks had really wanted on the album, but was cut, which angered Nicks. What has Stevie Nicks revealed about the Fleetwood Mac song Silver Springs?

What Has Stevie Nicks Revealed About 'Silver Springs'?

Stevie Nicks has discussed the emotionally-driven Silver Springs several times. Explaining why she wrote the song, Nicks "wanted to say to Buckingham, 'I'm so angry with you. You will listen to me on the radio for the rest of your life.'"

Nicks has also spoken about performing the song with her ex, Lindsey Buckingham, who plays lead guitar and sings back-up on Silver Springs.

Talking about their MTV special, Nicks said, "In six weeks of rehearsal, it [performing Silver Springs for the MTV special] was never like that... Only on Friday night did we let it go into something deeper. When we went on Friday, I knew we'd bring it out in case it was the last thing we'd ever do."

"The other shows were really, really good, but they weren't the show I wanted to leave behind. This show was... I wanted people to stand back and really watch and understand what [the relationship with Lindsey] was."

When Nicks talked to Rosie O' Donnell about performing the song with Lindsey Buckingham, O'Donnell said, "You and Lindsey, Silver Springs..." she added their performance was "killer." Nicks said, "That was a magical night, that night that we filmed that show."

She added, "Well since that performance I have to sing Silver Springs to him almost every day, so Lindsey and I get to do and say things that we wouldn't get to say to each other in real life. It's like a release."

"Even now, we don't talk much, so when those songs come around and are directly involved with our relationship it's very therapeutic to work that stuff out. This way we get to have closure." Providing some insight into why she penned the song, she wanted to get a clear message across to her ex, Lindsey Buckingham. "I'm so angry with you. You will listen to me on the radio for the rest of your life, and it will bug you. I hope it bugs you."

Why Did Stevie Nicks Name The Song 'Silver Springs'?

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were involved a long and complicated relationship which had started when they were in high school. After their break-up they each wrote songs expressing their feelings.

Other band members of Fleetwood Mac were also involved in personal relationships with one another, which could sometimes get messy. Several band members wrote about their relationships, which became hit songs.

Not only is Stevie Nicks known for her phenomenal voice, she's also written some incredible hit songs, including Silver Springs. About the song's title, Nicks said she got the name "Silver Springs" from a place: she loved the sound/idea of it.

"I wrote Silver Springs uh, about Lindsey. And I. We were in Maryland somewhere driving under a freeway sign that said Silver Springs, Maryland. And I loved the name."

"...Silver Springs sounded like a pretty fabulous place to me. And uh, 'You could be my Silver Springs...' that's just a whole symbolic thing of what you could have been to me."

The Landslide singer also felt badly that the song took a while before it began to really earn money. This wasn't because of the singer's greed though, it was because she had gifted the royalties she made from the song to her mother.

Stevie Nicks Wanted 'Silver Springs' On The 'Rumours' Album

Although Silver Springs isn't included on one of Fleetwood Mac's most iconic albums, Rumours, Stevie Nicks had every intention of it being on the album. Unfortunately, the song was cut, which angered the Rhiannon singer.

Per American Songwriter, in 1991, she revealed she'd been told by Mick Fleetwood, "he said, 'I'm taking Silver Springs off the record.' And of course my first reaction was, 'Why?' And he said, 'there's a lot of reasons, but because basically it's just too long. And we think that there's another of your songs that's better, so that's what we want to do.'"

When she was told the other song was I Don't Want To Know, Nicks said, "I don't want to sing that song on this record," and was told, "Then don't sing it."

Although Nicks said she "started to scream bloody murder" she realized it was a losing battle and said, "So basically, with a gun to my head, I went out and sang I Don't Want To Know. And they put Silver Springs on the back of Go Your Own Way (One of Lindsey Buckingham's breakup songs about Nicks)".

She revealed, "You have to realize that Silver Springs was so genuinely kicked off the record, and I was so genuinely devastated...because I loved the song, and it was one of the Rumours songs."

"So I never thought Silver Springs would ever be performed on stage, would never be heard of again so it, like, and my beautiful song, just disappeared. So for it to come back around like this has really been, really special to me."