JANUARY 1, 1975 – Recording artist duo Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham officially joined Fleetwood Mac, bringing with them the songs “Rhiannon” and “Landslide”. The group would first perform with the new lineup on May 15th.The pair met while they were both attending Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, California, south of San Francisco. At the time, Nicks was a senior in high school and Buckingham, one year younger than her, was a junior. According to Nicks, they first met at a casual, after-school Young Life gathering in 1966. They found themselves harmonizing to what some accounts claim was a Beach Boys song, although Nicks herself claims they sang “California Dreamin’,” a hit single by The Mamas and The Papas, in an interview she gave with The Source in 1981. Nevertheless, Nicks and Buckingham did not collaborate again for another two years. In 1968, Buckingham invited Nicks to sing in Fritz, a band he was playing bass guitar for with some of his high school friends.
