No Lindsey, No Stevie, and No Magic: Remembering When Fleetwood Mac Released an Album With Fill-Ins in 1995
Fleetwood Mac continued after the departures of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and other members, releasing the largely overlooked 1995 album *Time* with several replacement musicians. The record is remembered as an unsuccessful attempt to preserve the band’s identity, but it also preceded the return of its best-known line-up for 1997’s *The Dance*.
Buckingham left in 1987, Nicks followed in 1991, while Rick Vito and Billy Burnette also departed and Christine McVie stopped touring. Mick Fleetwood recruited Bekka Bramlett and Dave Mason, with Burnette returning for live dates, but internal tensions and limited record-label promotion hampered the album; it was released in October 1995, despite the article incorrectly stating 1985.
- *Time* was Fleetwood Mac’s unsuccessful 1995 replacement-line-up album.
- Key members’ departures left the band’s identity weakened.
- Its failure was followed by the classic line-up’s 1997 return.
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Fleetwood Mac is a British-American rock band formed in the late 1960s. Its most famous version included Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, and made hugely successful albums such as Rumours.
The group’s membership changed often over the years, with musicians leaving and joining while Fleetwood and John McVie remained central figures. By the early 1990s, Buckingham and Nicks had left, while Christine McVie had stepped back from touring, leaving the band to work with newer members.
Time was made during this unsettled period, with singers and musicians including Bekka Bramlett and Dave Mason helping to continue the group. The album came out in 1995 and was followed by the reunion of the better-known line-up for the live album and television special The Dance in 1997.