Failing Legend Decided To Quit Music, Then Wrote The Song That Saved Her Career | Professor of Rock

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were lovers who had been trying to make it in music for years. After some fiery arguments, years of failures and poverty, Stevie decided to quit music for good. One night she put all that pain into a song she called Landslide. Almost over night after writing that classic she and Lindsey met Fleetwood Mac and they were asked to join up. They recorded the white album with song of their own to add and the rest is history. How Landslide changed all of that.

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So, it’s time for another edition of #1 in Our Hearts. This show honors songs that were so unbelievably great, they absolutely should've been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. But for whatever reason the song came up short. On previous episodes we have covered In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel, In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins, and Tiny Dancer by Elton John. But for today’s episode we are telling the story behind Landslide by Fleetwood Mac.

So, when Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were dropped from Polydor Records in the fall of 1973, it felt like “the world had ended”. That’s how Stevie put it. The professional and romantic couple had thought they had created a brilliant debut record. It had been years of work to get to that point. But this unique blend of folk, rock, and country debut was almost immediately dismissed.
In fact, some Polydor execs disliked it so much that they didn’t even want to release it. The songs, they said, lacked imagination and had zero commercial potential. As a result, the label virtually ignored the duo, who went by the name Buckingham Nicks. Refusing to provide promotional support for the release, it was a surefire set up for failure.

But opinions weren’t exactly positive either. Billboard dismissed the pair as a lackluster and they were outright ignored by music industry tastemakers Creem, Hit Parader, and Rolling Stone. Devastated and depressed, 25-year-old Stevie Nicks considered quitting music altogether, and thought about leaving LA to move back home with her parents.
But by the start of 1974, she was still there with Lindsey. The two hadn’t given up yet. So, while Buckingham stayed home to write new demos for a follow-up album, Stevie went to work as a waitress. The job she found was at a roaring 1920s themed restaurant called Clementines where she got to dress up in flapper attire.