Relive Stevie Nicks’ Relationship History as Singer Gears Up for Solo Album Based on ‘Real Stories’

Superstar Taylor Swift has called rock legend Stevie Nicks her hero — but now the Fleetwood Mac femme fatale is ripping a page out of Taylor’s playbook by cutting an album full of poison pen songs about her ex-lovers — and sources say the guys are bracing for a Landslide of retribution.

The Rhiannon singer, 76, recently dished about her upcoming solo album, saying the songs are “real stories where I’m not pulling any punches, for probably the first time in my life. They are not airy fairy songs that you are wondering who they’re about. They’re real stories.”

One who’s certainly in Stevie’s crosshairs is longtime lover Lindsey Buckingham, her former Fleetwood Mac bandmate. But that’s nothing new for him. He has already been targeted in her songs Dreams and Silver Springs and also claims she got him kicked out of the band in 2018.

“Lindsey knows Stevie’s going to let him have it again, all these years later,” says an insider. “She can hold a grudge with the best of them.”

After Stevie’s romance with Lindsey blew up in 1976, she spent two years in a drug and booze-fueled relationship with Eagles singer-drummer Don Henley. They recorded the hit duet Leather and Lace together, and she admitted having an abortion during her time with him.

“I think Stevie really believed Don would marry her, and when he moved on after getting her pregnant, she was incredibly hurt,” notes the insider. “But I bet he’s going to feel that pain once he hears her new album.”

Stevie says she thought she’d finally found Mr. Right with Henley’s bandmate Joe Walsh, but their three-year romance in the 1980s also collapsed. Joe ditched her and left for Australia “to get away from me, basically,” she says, adding, “It took me a long, long time to get over it — if I ever got over it. Because there was no other man in the world for me.”

Now, Nicks is unleashing all of that spurned-woman angst in song.

“Stevie is impressed with Taylor’s ability to take the pain of past relationships and use it to fuel powerful and often biting lyrics,” explains our source. “She’s giving it a whirl and is hot with anticipation at getting some pop payback!”