Lindsey Buckingham is celebrating his 77th birthday.
The legendary Fleetwood Mac guitarist was born on Oct. 3, 1949, in Palo Alto, Calif., and went on to pen some of the band’s greatest songs, including “I’m So Afraid” and “Go Your Own Way.”
Buckingham was a driving force behind the success of Rumours, Fleetwood Mac’s iconic 1977 album that spent a whopping 31 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Buckingham wrote and sang on “Second Hand News,” Never Going Back Again,” and “Go Your Own Way” and co-wrote “The Chain.” The album became the biggest and best-selling album of 1977 and solidified Buckingham and his bandmates Mick Fleetwood, Steve Nicks, Christine McVie and John McVie as rock superstars.
Nearly 50 years later, Buckingham is known as one of the greatest classic rock guitarists of all time—and he’s not done yet.
In a post to his Instagram page earlier this year, Buckingham teased his future plans, telling fans, “I am still very, very grounded in my creative life. I’ve been working on a new solo album for the last couple of years, which is one song away from being finished.”
Buckingham has been playing guitar for almost his entire life. Rolling Stone once shared that the future legend grew up listening to his brother’s Elvis, Buddy Holly and Little Richard records and later learned how to play guitar on a plastic Mickey Mouse guitar.
Decades later, Buckingham admitted he always played guitar his own way.
“Because I was not taught and don’t read music, I don’t approach it academically,” he said in a 2011 interview with Darryl Sterdan. “I don’t play every day. I don’t sit and practice scales. I don’t even know scales. If there’s an academic aspect to it, it’s about intellectualizing how to approach songs. When I started playing at about seven, I had a chord book and an older brother who had 45s, and I was just learning songs. And it’s always been about songs.”
“As far as the guitar becoming more important or prominent, a few years ago the song ‘Big Love’ made its way to the stage as a guitar-and-voice piece,” he added of the hit song from the 1987 Fleetwood Mac album Tango in the Night. “It became such a touchstone for me in terms of using the guitar to do the work of a whole track. And that approach has expanded over the years.”
Buckingham’s last solo album came in 2021. At the time, he said he wanted to experiment with different musical styles.
“I wanted to make a pop album, but I also wanted to make stops along the way with songs that resemble art more than pop,” the Fleetwood Mac guitarist said. “As you age, hopefully you keep getting a little more grounded in the craft of what you’re doing. For me, getting older has probably helped to reinforce the innocence and the idealism that hopefully was always there.”
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