You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Lindsey Buckingham is a singer-songwriter, a guitarist, and a producer.
In 1974, he joined the band Fleetwood Mac, along with Stevie Nicks, his girlfriend at the time.
A few years later, in 1977, Fleetwood Mac released the album Rumors,
which would go on to sell over 40 million copies and become the eighth highest selling album in history.
In this episode, Lindsey Buckingham breaks down Go Your Own Way,
a song that he wrote for that album about his relationship with Stevie Nicks.
This is the 150th episode of Song Exploder.
I have some news about what's in store for the future of this podcast,
but more on that at the end of this episode.
Please stick around for that.
First, here's Lindsey Buckingham on Song Exploder.
My name is Lindsey Buckingham.
Stevie and I had done this album called Buckingham Nicks,
and it had sort of made a little dent, but, you know.
Nothing to speak of.
And one day we were working on new material, Stevie and I, at Sound City.
We were in the small studio in the back, and I went into Studio A, where Keith Olsen,