Within a year, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham of Buckingham Nicks joined the band, giving it an added dimension.

In 2006, Paste magazine named McVie, together with bandmates Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, as the 83rd greatest living songwriter or songwriting team.

Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974, along with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham.

Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, 1977's Rumours, produced four US Top 10 singles ( including Nicks's song " Dreams ", which was the band's first and only US number one ) and remained at No. 1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world.

Nicks is known for her distinctive voice, mystical visual style, and symbolic lyrics, as well as the famous ( sometimes tense ) chemistry between herself and former boyfriend and guitarist / vocalist in Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham.

Nicks first met her future musical and romantic partner Lindsey Buckingham during her senior year at Menlo Atherton High School.

Buckingham contacted Nicks a few years later and asked her to join him and his bandmates Javier Pacheco and Calvin Roper in a band called Fritz.

Both Nicks and Buckingham attended San Jose State University in Northern California, where Nicks majored in Speech Communication.

She had planned on becoming an English teacher, but she and Buckingham dropped out in 1968 to move to Los Angeles in pursuit of a music career when Nicks ' family moved to Chicago.

After Fritz disbanded in 1972, Nicks and Buckingham continued to write and record as a duo, producing demo tapes at the coffee plant belonging to Buckingham's father Morris.

Polydor used tracks from the demo tapes to release the album Buckingham Nicks in 1973.

The album was not a commercial success, despite the live shows that Nicks and Buckingham performed together to support it, and Polydor dropped the pair from the label.

To support herself and Buckingham, who wrote music while recovering from mononucleosis, Nicks worked a variety of jobs, which included waiting tables and a stint cleaning engineer / producer Keith Olsen's house, where Nicks and Buckingham lived for a time.

Nicks and Buckingham briefly relocated to Aspen, Colorado.

While there, Buckingham landed a guitar-playing gig with the Everly Brothers, and toured with them while Nicks stayed behind.

Initially extending the offer only to Buckingham, Fleetwood later included Nicks in the offer when Buckingham insisted that he and Nicks were " a package deal ".

During the 1992 US presidential campaign, Bill Clinton used the Fleetwood Mac hit " Don't Stop " as his campaign theme song, and Nicks joined her band mates to perform the song at Clinton's 1993 Inaugural Gala.

A newly invigorated and slimmed down Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac for The Dance, a highly successful 1997 tour that coincided with the 20th anniversary of the release of Rumours.

In 1998, Nicks joined the group for its induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Nicks joined the group to support the album with a world tour lasting until September 2004.

Californians Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac in the 1970s and were a key part of the band's multi-platinum success.

Anastacia joined Celine Dion, Shakira, Cher, Dixie Chicks, and Stevie Nicks for VH1's Divas Live in 2002 and she also contributed the song " Love Is a Crime " to the Chicago soundtrack.

As a rock music critic and journalist he was among the first to champion Buckingham Nicks, the debut album by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks before they joined Fleetwood Mac.

* 1948 – Stevie Nicks, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Fleetwood Mac )

* May 26 – Stevie Nicks, American rock singer and songwriter ( Fleetwood Mac )

Despite the departure of Stevie Nicks, Christine remained loyal to Mick Fleetwood and her former husband, recording five songs for the band's 1995 effort Time.

Stephanie Lynn " Stevie " Nicks ( born May 26, 1948 ) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums.

The song built to a climax in which Nicks ' vocals were so impassioned that drummer and band co-founder Mick Fleetwood declared, " her < i > Rhiannon </ i > in those days was like an exorcism.

Following the success of Fleetwood Mac, increasing tension between Nicks and Buckingham began to take its toll on their creativity, and Nicks ended the relationship.

In November 1977, after a New Zealand concert for the Rumours tour, Nicks and Fleetwood, who was married to Jenny Boyd, secretly began an affair.

The pair mutually decided to end the affair, because, according to Nicks, " we knew it would be the end of Fleetwood Mac.

" Soon after, in October 1978, Mick Fleetwood left his wife for Nicks ' best friend Sara Recor.

After the success of the Rumours album and tour in 1977 – 78, Fleetwood Mac began recording their third album with Buckingham and Nicks, Tusk, in the spring of 1978.

By 1978, Nicks had amassed a large backlog of songs dating back to her Buckingham Nicks days that she had been unable to record and release with Fleetwood Mac because of the constraint of having to accommodate three songwriters on each album.

In November 1981, Nicks embarked on the White Winged Dove tour, which she had to cut short to record the Mirage album with Fleetwood Mac.

In 1989, Nicks set to work with Fleetwood Mac on a new album, Behind the Mask, which was released in 1990 to moderate commercial success in the US.

After the tour concluded, Nicks left the group over a dispute with Mick Fleetwood, who would not allow her to release the 1977 track " Silver Springs " on her album Timespace – The Best of Stevie Nicks, because of his plans to release it on a forthcoming Fleetwood Mac box set.

After the culmination of the Fleetwood Mac reunion tour, Nicks settled down in Los Angeles and Phoenix with close friends and colleagues to devise a track list for this three-disc collection.

On February 4, 2012 ( the 35th anniversary of the release of Rumours ), the group Mirabelle released Crystal Revisions, a tribute album consisting of Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks covers.

Upon being asked in a question forum on her official website about playing the tambourine, Nicks stated that she began playing the tambourine upon joining Fleetwood Mac in 1975, feeling the need to do something onstage during songs that featured Buckingham or McVie.

When Fleetwood Mac was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 1998, original band members Green, Jeremy Spencer, Danny Kirwan, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie were named to the Hall, as were Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks.

* Rhiannon, song by Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac

* Fleetwood Mac held their first concert that featured Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in El Paso in 1975.

Faithfull has recently recorded a cover version of a Stevie Nicks track from the Fleetwood Mac album Tusk as part of a Fleetwood Mac tribute project.