# Stevie Nicks Was Personally Offended by This Fleetwood Mac Top 10 Single

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/stevie-nicks-was-personally-offended-by-this-fleetwood-mac-top-10-single/
- Published: 2026-10-28T11:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-04T04:00:04+00:00
- Original publisher: American Songwriter
- Original article: https://americansongwriter.com/stevie-nicks-was-personally-offended-by-this-fleetwood-mac-top-10-single/
- Topics: Entertainment, Film, Music

## Key points

- Buckingham wrote “Go Your Own Way” after splitting from Nicks.
- Nicks objected to a lyric she said was untrue.
- The song became a Fleetwood Mac Top 10 hit.

## Summary

Fleetwood Mac’s 1976 hit “Go Your Own Way”, written by Lindsey Buckingham about his breakup with Stevie Nicks, included a lyric that Nicks found personally offensive. The song became a Top 10 single, while the former couple continued working together in the band.

Nicks said the line “Packing up / Shacking up’s all you wanna do” wrongly implied she was already pursuing other relationships, and recalled feeling angry whenever it was performed. Buckingham later described the song as a stream-of-consciousness response to the breakup and said he was trying to come to terms with his heartbreak while accepting the relationship had ended.

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