Nicks and Buckingham reconcile, discuss Frozen Love on Song Exploder

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham said they are back on speaking terms after a joint appearance, in separate interviews, on the Song Exploder podcast in which they discussed their 1973 song Frozen Love and the recently reissued Buckingham Nicks album. The conversation, released this month, revisits the pair’s early partnership, the origins of the song and how those years set the stage for their later roles in Fleetwood Mac.

Nicks told the podcast that she and Buckingham had renewed contact, saying, "Lindsey and I started talking about it last night. This whole thing seems really like yesterday to us." The two recounted meeting as teenagers in Northern California, their time together in the band Fritz, and the decision to work as a duo after producer Keith Olsen suggested they would have more success that way. They moved to Los Angeles and recorded Buckingham Nicks, which was not commercially successful at the time but later opened the door to Fleetwood Mac.

Frozen Love, the closing track on Buckingham Nicks and the only song on that album co-credited to both, was a focal point of the conversation. Nicks described it as a portrait of two lovers with differing perspectives whose...