Silver Springs Fleetwood Mac - Story Behind The Song

[@tunesman100]

Poll: Aside from Silver Springs, what is your pick for the most "unheralded song" from the 1970's?

[@halfmoonfabrics356]

Coming Down Again Rolling Stones.

[@lucasg2222]

Jethro Tull's Nothing is Easy but I guess that's from 1969.

[@RJRYLES]

Makes no difference with or to the emotion is unparralled. He responds and the result is undeniable magic. I have my own issues with Stevie Knicks as a human being, but this song is fucking gold. There is no denying their magic. Imagine if she had had don Henley's baby ? That child would have been fucking amazing!

[@RJRYLES]

Could a, shoulda , woulda :(

[@silvergreen3249]

Queen. At Hammersmith 1975. “ In the Lap of the Gods” in concert is great. Not many people may like it but the lyrics seems personal. Too bad it’s a bad video in some ways. I wish they would have re-did the song in later decades. Lol. I love early 70’s Freddy. Lol. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3-5m5lrZZt7bNU

[@BeeCurious007]

That video clip of Stevie singing directly to Lindsey still gives me chills every time I see it! 💜😶‍🌫️💜

[@Bev356]

Me too!

[@janzitterkopf1630]

So sad.

[@RandymanB]

So fricken intense!

[@CharmedLifePicksRock]

There's one minor detail left out of this video. The REASON Mick Fleetwood wanted to hire Lindsay was not random or arbitrary. Right after Lindsay and Mick met at Sound City, Fleetwood Mac's guitarist Bob Welch told Mick he was leaving the band. Mick was desperately looking for a new guitar player.

[@charitypratt2042]

So powerful!

[@toddkoltes3570]

Hard not to tear up. So powerful. Side story. When Stevie signed her song writing credits over to the band, she refused to give this song up. Instead, she gifted the rights to her mother.

[@DexterHaven]

That's good she had the liberty to do that still after releasing it as a single on the B side in '77. John Fogerty had no control over his CCR songs.

[@DexterHaven]

But if Stevie had no rights left to the song, she had nothing to give, and her mother got zilch. And if this comment is true, which seems plausible, Steve had no separate ownership rights to pass to her mom: "The song as arranged and produced legally belonged to FM and Warner Bros. It had already been released as a B side. Mick couldn't have given it to Stevie even if he wanted to. Stevie could have re recorded it for her album - but she wanted it as arranged and produced by Lindsey & FM. (listen to her piano demo and you'll know why)"

[@aprilgosa5779]

when did she sign away her songs

[@bonniebottin]

❤Lce this Song the Energy you feel in ur soul Awsome❤​@@DexterHaven

[@kimberlylabrec246]

​@DexterHaven I read something where Stevie was commenting on this. She did gift the songwriting credit to her mom. She said how for years it seemed like it was a bum gift since it didn't really make any money. But then after this special she was like, well, turned out not to be such a bad gift cause now her mom gets the royalties.

[@sjager1964]

Stevie didn't sing TO Lindsey, she sang AT Lindsey.

[@christinascibetta1043]

Oh yes!

[@christinascibetta1043]

Stevie is a brilliant song writer...haunting....

[@marlamays2131]

Yes. They got to a place of distrust, but now? I don't know that they truly trust any other person more,than each other.

[@rhondawaller4457]

Amazing song and I’m glad she got to have her say…..

[@genadomangue9759]

As that tour continued, they came to sing with less anger & in the next few tours, they calmed & it was beautiful to watch them play it

[@Mia444]

Who else wishes they could see that moment Stevie and Lindsey sang 'California Dreaming' in high school?

[@christineknapp7794]

Omg meeeee

[@skye_meeren]

I would love to be a fly on the wall for that party 🙈 Not just for this moment but also to see the history

[@tiffanyroseangeles34]

@@christineknapp7794sure thing!💃🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🔮⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@SimplyBeingTT]

​@@skye_meerenThe NR version

[@hayooo3134]

yess i was literally thinking that lol

[@kassandrayoung3405]

The way Christine just starred at Stevie that day in 1997 just to make sure she was okay!! Ugh she was truly such a great woman.

[@lizbartlett8769]

The band was surprised and had no idea what might happen! It was like an aw crap moment!

[@DHRodriguez86]

It was how my sister and I are with eachother. It was deep.

[@emmarae4322]

Was? She's still alive.

[@lynneedwards4538]

​@@emmarae4322Christine died in 2022.

[@ICee712]

@@emmarae4322she’s not.

[@jeanaerowley7150]

I love her for having the courage to do that. I love him for standing there and taking it.

[@Ann-cm6sx]

@@jeanaerowley7150 Same here! Was so powerful and chills for them both. The look on both their faces says it all...

[@jtbaying2312]

Bet he had to swallow his pride...but he did her wrong. The lyrics are Stevie asking his side chick did he tell you the same words he told me...your pretty...

[@kareyannefoster]

Silver Springs is truly the most beautiful Fleetwood Mac song ever written. It is the most beautiful song that Stevie Nicks ever wrote, as a member of FWM, and as a solo artist. Silver Springs is my favorite song of theirs and also Stevie Nicks.

[@Bev356]

Nice song, but not as good!

[@DexterHaven]

There is only one song by Fleetwood Mac that I like better than "Silver Springs"... "Hypnotized." What a mood piece by Bob Welch.

[@sherryherrick6567]

But she doesn't sing it in her concert. 😞

[@DexterHaven]

Yeah, her 2023 setlist at concerts is this: "Outside the Rain" "Dreams" "If Anyone Falls" "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" "Fall From Grace" "For What It's Worth" "Gypsy" "Wild Heart" "Bella Donna" "Stand Back" "Soldier's Angel" "Gold Dust Woman" "I Sing for the Things" "Edge of Seventeen" "Free Fallin'" "Rhiannon" "Landslide" She'd need Lindsey and Mick to do "Silver Springs" right. @@sherryherrick6567

[@Trixon821]

Mine also.

[@lilbuddha4135]

Stevie and Lindsey’s dynamic is very twin flame energy. It’s an amazing thing to witness.

[@LibbyHacker]

I to this day believe that they belong together! Especially,now that he’s divorced since she never married 🤞🏽

[@lightsnsirens2002]

Twin flame? Really? 😊

[@tweeglaister4885]

Mesmerising, it's like a chant -- what a band, what a performance, what a magic lady is Stevie.

[@Mark-eu4di]

Can’t believe I felt the pain from Stevie as she was sending it home to Lindsey, it actually made my eyes well up with tears during the live silver spring rendition. 😢😢

[@florencehenderson3707]

yeah it's a lot with these two... I wish there could be real resolution for them... either that or just get back together.. damn! :) but Lindsey found someone else right? ughhh... star crossed lovers...

[@yolandaj6364]

Glad u cried too. I thought it was just me and my age.

[@florencehenderson3707]

@@yolandaj6364 I was thinking the same thing.. "jeez I cry at everything 'now'". 😆 it's not us, it's them..

[@yolandaj6364]

@@florencehenderson3707 🤭😄😄😄 I needed that. Thank You.

[@markfellows6828]

Same with the tears.

[@jm34642]

Silver Springs … my favorite Fleetwood Mac song … Stevie Nicks is a true artist. Glad she finally got the recognition she deserved on this one…

[@FurElise-oe7pu]

This is one of my favorite songs. I remember watching The Dance on tv. Even as an 11 year old, I could feel the love/hate between Stevie and Lindsey. I feel like that was Stevie’s chance to say everything to him, in that moment, that she was never able to say before. What a gorgeous, heartfelt, grief-stricken, angry song this is. I absolutely love it.

[@romanholiday1000]

I agree with everything you are saying. But would you believe that Stevie is the one who ended the relationship, broke up with him? Stevie was the one who wanted out of the relationship. She broke his heart. I don’t know if too many people know that. But it’s the truth.

[@jayannakelley9051]

@@romanholiday1000- You are right! She did the breaking up!!

[@joroberts7855]

I've always beena bit confused by Stevies words and anger in this song purely because she broke up with him yet its like she's the rejected one ? I can only think she's angry she ' had to end it' ....who knows .

[@Trixon821]

I have the DVD of this great concert.

[@carla-4920]

We were young adults when this live album came out in the 90s and what a great album! Transcended across races and cultures! 💿 the harmony of the first song, The Chain set off this great album. You can really feel the emotion in Silver Springs. 👏

[@mylolee62]

Fierce! What woman doesnt fantasize about this scenario?! And at 1 point it looks like Lindsey either stumbled over the words, or just couldnt speak for that moment. Priceless

[@MascarasMil]

Wow, great job telling the story. As a man who once rebutted the love of a beautiful woman, this song haunts me.

[@Ann-cm6sx]

@@MascarasMil Exactly my thoughts! Watch this video at least a couple times a day. Mesmerizing and gives me chills. Stevie is actually my best friend's cousin. Her name is Julie and she didn't even tell me until years after I met her. She just didn't want people swamping her with questions. Such a complicated web Fleetwood Mac had. Believe there's a documentary out there I saw awhile back.

[@lmariebible]

I remember this performance. Its so hauntingly beautiful. Stevie's performance gives me goosebumps.

[@tula7141]

Stevie is the greatest female vocal of all time. I was in Jr. High school when i first heard her voice. She has been my favorite ever since. That was in 1978.

[@Topcat90069]

Bleat

[@gabbyjohn737]

I'll take Celiene.

[@mariapalladino2473]

The year I was born. This was my mother’s favorite band of all time. I’m so grateful I got to take her to see them live with all the members. I bawled when they sang this song. I was lucky to grow up with parents who loved music.

[@yvonnemichelleautry6976]

♥️ I agree! 🎶 She is one of the VERY BEST ARTISTS EVER! ♥️

[@Janellabelle]

I'd say best female rock star.

[@rickczainski9856]

I love how Chrissey is watching Stevie give it to Lindsay at 11:40

[@AmyCellar-lo5wr]

My daughter discovered this song recently and I had never mentioned how much I love Fleetwood Mac and Stevie. It will always be around for every generation to hear and love. Such a great song and Stevie is just an amazing artist with a very distinct voice. ♥️

[@brianpond4264]

The song has finally had made it to the Rumours album in where it belonged in the first place. I'm not faulting anyone here just giving the true fact!!!

[@markjohnston8631]

I bought the "Go Your Own Way" 45 RPM in 1977 so I was lucky enough to know "Silver Springs" as part of the RUMOURS package ("Silver Springs" was the B-side of "Go Your Own Way," the first single off of RUMOURS.) I loved the song from my first listen, and I'm glad it finally got the airing it deserved. Among its other qualities, it's a terrific and uplifting response to "Go Your Own Way" and as such heightens my respect for Stevie's position in her protracted face-off against Buckingham (not that any of that is really any of our business). I'm still surprised that more people haven't discovered the original BUCKINGHAM NICKS album, which is a beautiful collection of songs, particularly considering how young and inexperienced Stevie and Lindsey were when they made it. It's easily available on KZbin. If you haven't heard it, be sure to give it a listen!

[@tunesman100]

I agree about the Buckingham Nicks album! I’ve been listening to it for years on KZbin and can’t believe it hasn’t found it’s way onto Spotify. It is a GREAT body of pre Fleetwood Mac music.

[@arturorichart7168]

13:10 😅

[@martyvicky30]

Absolutely agree I consider it a masterpiece! Great writing thanks.

[@JenniferCheek-tn8nr]

I totally agree it's equally good as Go Your Own Way 😊

[@caps689]

Dreams was already a response to GYOW though far more disingenuous since Stevie was the one that wanted her freedom (she said years later that the opening lines were written from Lindsey's POV not hers). Silver Springs is an uplifting response? It's gorgeous but it's also kind of a stalker song. In a Rolling Stone 2009 interview Stevie said she knew then that Lindsey would haunt her for the rest of her life and he had - so she wrote SS to haunt him in turn. She wanted him to feel hurt every time he heard the song or her on the radio. She wrote it because she was upset he was bringing his new girlfriends around - said it made her physically ill and she'd have to leave the room. Note - this was after she'd dumped him and was seeing Don Henley (and bragging to Rolling Stone that Henley taught her to be a real rock star not like Lindsey who just wanted to sleep with his guitar).

[@bluesslider76]

Beautiful and heart wrenching moment. I’ve watched it many times. She is stunning and magical.

[@TCsGirl]

I've cried so many times watching this...

[@bluesslider76]

@ yep it got me too. I totally forgot about this for a long time.

[@cathlinejohnson1856]

April 2024 here…..I discovered this song recently and listen to it every night now. I freaking love it.

[@cathycivensky1627]

Me too!

[@patriciadudley8092]

Me too!

[@bjelfin]

Who hasn't wanted to write or sing a song like this to someone who they loved and and vent their feelings through music? I can feel what she felt, this is intense, but beautiful and heartbreaking all at once.

[@tunesman100]

Extremely well said, thanks for commenting.

[@StilettoCutsQuick.]

I have the 45 with B side Silver Springs. I bought it about 1983. My older sister told me about the song and that it was somewhat of a collectors item. Couldn’t wait to get home and play it. Now it hangs in a shadow box on my living room wall. Great fucking song 🔮🎩🌙

[@markmorgan1409]

The artistry was that Stevie, of a lower range, sang the part of the soprano melody, and Christine harmonized with the Soprano range because, lets admit it. She could carry both "Perfect"ly. Spiritually, that's no irony either. Christine was pitch perfect, she hears the notes between the notes. Lindsey had to be the glue between the two ranges without going flat. Fleetwood Mac could sell any song with a flat line. Watch all three communicate with their eyes in this performance, the camera picks it up well. It's incredible

[@tunesman100]

Fantastic comment thank you.

[@carolmerrill3732]

I have a lot of Stevie Albums my favorite is Bella Donna

[@carolmerrill3732]

Love her

[@carolmerrill3732]

And the Bucking Nicks

[@jakechristensen9613]

Hahaha "carry both "Perfect-ly".... " I see what you did there. Love it.

[@krasnoz6]

I was obsessed with this song for years. It’s so beautiful and haunting. This performance is so powerful and emotional 😢

[@melissameyer9981]

Personally , I think silver springs is one of the greatest songs from them. I love Fleetwood Mac forever. R.I.P. Christy Mcvee.❤ God bless you all out there. Oh, and great lyrics Stevie on this song❤

[@lmt16]

It must be such a strange feeling knowing someone out there in the world you share so much history and memories with has become a complete stranger

[@Krullmatic]

It is, but it becomes easier with time. I still think and dream about her sometimes though.

[@adrianwagner336]

as one who has lived that exact scenario it IS strange...and painful to know i had lost the one person in my 30 plus years of living that made it all worth while, who shared my deepest secrets, who i KNEW gave me as much as i gave and i gave all to wish them only all the happiness they had wished for with me but for reasons not really either of our fault it was all lost with no seeable possibility to be regained...for over 20 years then the magic once again drew us together for the second chance i knew i could and would never have...painful beyond words but to somehow be given another opportunity is also beauty beyond words ...i think its one of those things you have to actually live thru to fully comprehend 🤔

[@pamorama]

All the way back in 1977 I worked a summer job at a popular women’s clothing store called Contempo casuals. Silver Springs was on our tape loop and I remember the first time I heard it I literally stopped in my tracks! I asked my manager what the name of this song was and she said I think it’s the best Fleetwood Mac song I’ve ever heard and we discussed the fact that it wasn’t on any of the albums. We spent that summer belting that song out whenever anybody wasn’t in the store. When someone would ask me what my favorite Fleetwood Mac song was, I’d always say Silver Springs and I think people would wonder whether I was making it up. Then came The Dance, and finally that beautiful song got it’s due. It’s a testimony to the timelessness of that song in the emotion and lyrical content that it became such a big hit more than 30 years after it was written!! It remains in my top three favorite Fleetwood Mac songs. Thank you for the backstory. It really informed the song for me. Also, I think I was one of three people in Southern California that owned the Buckingham Nicks album! 🤣 and you’re right it’s an excellent album, Crystal is superlative, and sound so much like Fleetwood Mac, that you then get a feel for how much that duo meant to the band as a whole.

[@Rioebroangling1]

great story

[@yoni5570]

Contempo Casual, referenced in the movie Clueless

[@christineknapp7794]

I owned the Buckingham Nicks vinyl as well. I loved it. In later years I had the cd as well.

[@JLeezy95]

Was born in 77 but I grew up memorizing Fleetwood Mac songs especially this one because my mother kept it playing on repeat

[@pamorama]

@@JLeezy95 i’m guessing it was a B-side to a single, or it was released as a single without being attached to an album, that used to happen back then. But it was 1977 and I have no idea how that song ended up on that loop. It played at Contempo casuals in the Puente Hills mall in Southern California. That’s all I can remember.

[@JoanRoth-fd9ks]

Omg, Lindsey was gorgeous. Why did it take me so many years to see this?

[@CognacEyes777]

I think it was hair - that put me off - so I couldn’t see him!

[@EndtheWokeMadness]

The emotional intensity of that performance was unparalleled. Stevie was electric.

[@Lilidrko]

proof that heartbreak creates art

[@judyschaeffer6576]

Your comment is poetic art. How true.

[@Lizawrites]

And love keeps it together sometimes.

[@susieterry9099]

I will never forget the first time I saw this performance. The relationship between her and Lindsay was well known and had a life of its own, but Stevie added the most epic cherry on top with this iconic performance after all the years that they'd been apart. It's pure fire and brimstone and she threw Buckingham right into it and it was glorious!

[@JesiBlu888]

One of the greatest songs of all time....and they almost chucked it. That song literally gives me chills. Every time I hear it. And the way she demanded him to look at her on the final hook...🙌

[@christineknapp7794]

I have loved Stevie since the 70s and she's still performing at 75. She is an amazing icon.

[@barbaracrawford1559]

One of the most intense emotionally charged videos I have ever seen! There is one more recent video that is even more emotional! You literally can feel the tension in the air! I thought they might possibly reunite on stage! Wow, what a song! Thank you for the back story!

[@yvonnemichelleautry6976]

💕 LOVE STEVIE NICKS! Lil’ genius girl! LOVE DREAMS! LOVE GYPSY, RHIANNON, YOU MAKE LOVIN’ FUN, SAY THAT YOU LOVE ME! I grew up listening to these AMAZING SONGS ‘n BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE! Brings back GREATEST MEMORIES FOR ME! THANK YOU FLEETWOOD MAC! Because of you, I can revisit this GOLDEN - MAGICAL & GOLDEN TIME whenever I choose to listen …💕

[@kfb2001us]

The chorus of the three singing together is so great on this song

[@-Shelley-]

This performance of this song where they are looking at each other while she's singing, twists my heart. The greatest love story that never happened. 💔

[@mlw2001]

This beautiful and haunting song is proof that two people can share such a deep and powerful long history and love and yet… and yet…not find a way to be together…. 😢 But wow! Stevie got her chance to express all that she’d been holding in…and Lindsey sure felt it! Amazing! Love love this song and FWM is possibly my all time favorite band ❤

[@jsouther8628]

Fleetwood Mac has been my favorite band since I was 9 years old. I'm 56 now. I remember the first time I heard Silver Springs. It was in the middle of the night on the radio and I never heard it again for a very long time. I knew then that I would never hear another song as beautiful as that one. Over time I would try to find it and luckily I did. I've heard all the different versions of it, and all of them are mesmerizing. When I was watching The Dance back in'97 and they started playing Silver Springs, tears flowed down my face. My beautiful favorite song since 1977 was finally getting the recognition it deserved. It's still my favorite song to this day. It still haunts me. It will follow me down til my last day.

[@DoctorJoanieTool]

It is so powerful watching Stevie sing SS next to LB in concert. I have always loved this genesis story having been born in Silver Springs, MD right around the time this was all going down. Magical. I read in the Times this week, that Stevie said she doesn’t see anything more possible for FM without Christine McVee. She said it with great emotion, tenderness, grief. They all went through so much together.

[@eveclancy3288]

The town is actually called Silver Spring, in the singular. I live and grew up near there and was in high school when Fleetwood Mac hit big. Silver Springs was always my favorite song of theirs, but was very rarely played, I guess because it was just the B side of a single. This made it even more special when I'd hear it. I could never understand at the time why it was hardly ever played because it was soooo good!

[@DoctorJoanieTool]

@@eveclancy3288 I know it’s Silver Spring …. Just a typing/auto correct error. I was born and went to school there up thru HS. I would have been younger though - …. I went to Farmland Elementary. DK if it’s still there. And Kennedy.

[@eveclancy3288]

@@DoctorJoanieTool Hi there, sorry I haven't seen my comments lately. It's nice to randomly come across someone on YT who grew up near me! I remember the name Farmland Elementary but can't recall knowing anyone who went there. I attended Garrett Park Elementary, Kensington JH, and Woodward High.

[@Trixon821]

The town is actually Silver Spring.

[@jamesgates1274]

Was born there too but grew up in Burtonsville many moons ago

[@AdaposePaul]

I worked at a college radio station in Fremont, Ca back then. We had the 45 RPM 'Go Your Own Way', but I always played 'Silver Springs' when ever I could, and announced it as the best song from the new Fleetwood Mac album that's not on the album. The other day my 16 year-old daughter asked "Papa, who is Stevie Nicks?" and then played this heartbreaking and beautiful song on her iPhone.

[@Joy-ds3vj]

The funny thing is that I told my boyfriend ( just by watching the video) that exact same thing as far as who the song was written about and the fact that she turns to him as if unaware that anyone else was in the room. So hearing the story behind the song is just mind blowing that all these years I was spot on. Wow. She is my girl, then and now. Go Stevie

[@tbbigrocker149]

DAMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN, I can FEEL the emotion between those two, I can only imagine how that must have felt to actually BE THERE IN THAT MOMENT.......Just WOW!

[@IvanDaniel28]

11:45 to the 12:00 mark was personal as she is absolutely GUSHING with emotion. WOW... SO powerful!!

[@sjgrall]

This song has a special place in my heart, one of two reasons being that I lived in Silver Spring, MD, the song’s namesake, for 5 years. The other reason is self explanatory.

[@ross2343]

i’m the Silver Spring area too..not sure why the song became Silver Springs..why the ‘s’ ?

[@sjgrall]

@@ross2343 Likely it sounded better in a song that way.

[@curiousman1672]

My favorite FM song. The most rage filled, vicious, break up song of all time. Ugh. I'm going to follow you to hell just to torture you. Glorious.

[@tunesman100]

"I'm going to follow you to hell just to torture you" - that was a perfect and hilarious summary of the sentiments of the song!

[@raechelyndawn2580]

Yah I don’t think I’d be singing about following anyone to hell. It’s not a place you want to be even if a metaphor… not good.

[@clivebrook]

There was actually another chapter in the SILVER SPRINGS saga. In 1991, Stevie asked Fleetwood Mac for permission to add it to the track list of her upcoming album, TIMESPACE, and they refused. She had turned over the proceeds of the song to her mother, but Fleetwood Mac would not release it to her. She had a big fight with Mick Fleetwood and vowed never to work with Fleetwood Mac again.

[@tunesman100]

Awesome comment thanks for posting.

[@caps689]

The song as arranged and produced legally belonged to FM and Warner Bros. It had already been released as a B side. Mick couldn't have given it to Stevie even if he wanted to. Stevie could have re recorded it for her album - but she wanted it as arranged and produced by Lindsey & FM. (listen to her piano demo and you'll know why) The reason she left is because the last FM album BTM struggled to make gold and FM was no longer helping her career but hurting it. Amusingly in retrospect she said then that she should have left when Lindsey did because there was no FM without him.

[@deanpesci8484]

I was shoving quarters in the juke box of my Mexican food dive listening to Silver Springs in what must have been 1977 or 78.....its part of the soundtrack of my life..

[@lemmylousmommy6616]

I had the 45, and decided to flip it over to play the B side one night. I played that over and over and over! I was so excited to see them perform it and include it on The Dance. I always knew it was one of her best!

[@joegutting]

Everyone always talks about how Stevie looked at Lindsey during that song, but if you watch the whole concert, she's constantly looking at him. Watch their other live performances and she does it as well. I think a lot of it is an act to evoke emotion from the people watching them and less about feelings they might have had 20+ years prior.

[@JenniferCheek-tn8nr]

That could be but she said she wrote the song about Lyndsey. They're some feelings there when she sings it to him.

[@Historian212]

Agree. It’s many years since the 70s. They’ve both moved on. I’m sure that memories linger, but they’re not even the same people anymore, really. But it’s great theater.

[@Aroundthefire77]

Yeah but the look during SS was more intense.

[@thomasspence307]

Yes… scripted

[@johnnymarinarasauce]

Agreed. Much ado about nothing. Mountain/molehill…

[@leslietippell]

Silver Springs still gives me chills when I listen to it, just the little snippet you played- amazing, Stevie Nicks is a rock Goddess!🌹

[@laurawilliams7407]

I was 16 when I first heard Fleetwood Mac in concert and saw them so many times after that I’ve lost count. This song is so hauntingly powerful, and it’s been on repeat for weeks now ❤

[@chrissyyyy901]

I heard this song because my mom sings in a band and sings this version. Knowing her past relationships its beautiful that she can sing this song thanks to Stevie.

[@jesswarner3254]

There is nothing more powerful than female rage

[@michaelthomas9020]

It’s just a shame that she turned out to have lied about everything. I was on her side for the longest until the rest of the band came out and said Stevie had lied & done some shady stuff

[@pattyleith6601]

Nothing more SENSUAL too!!!!

[@brianpond4264]

Yes as goes for Buckingham Nicks album the guitar play and the two-part Harmony it's really a masterpiece!!!

[@medicatedmama]

I remember watching this and seeing her stare at him like that. It gave me goosebumps. We went to that reunion tour concert and she did the same thing. Our was intense!! I think she probably did that to him every single night of that tour. Lol.

[@mariapalladino2473]

Yessss! Same! I brought my mother to that concert. Fleetwood Mac is her favorite band ever. I was bawling when they sang this song. It’s like Stevie was FINALLY able to get all those feelings out she had been holding onto for decades. Hauntingly beautiful

[@Chelabellasweets]

Thanks for this video! Absolutely love this video and version. Such an emotional performance and song! I’ve sent the video to a few people to watch and I get so frustrated when they brush it off like oh I’ll watch later….like NO stop what you’re doing and watch it now, it will move you to your core!! 😂

[@andreataylor5269]

Happy 76th Birthday Stevie Nicks!! You will always be my Ancient Queen-Rock On in 2024!🎉

[@Mesoblunt]

Stevie got what she wanted at the end of the day. She didn't get the relationship but she got the song that will live on forever!

[@connilaine]

And THAT is even better.

[@NatureGirl62]

Our local Bay Area stations played it when it was only on a B-side, so I was fortunate to have heard it in the 70s. Thank you for this enjoyable travel back through history.

[@EastSide-qc5oy]

Who knows what would have happened with the song if it were originally included on Rumours, but if you were a FM fan and already familiar with the original as a B-side (which prior to 1997 was hard to come by because the 45 to Go Your Own Way by that point was a rare collectors item) it was a huge surprise and gift to have the song recorded live and released as a single. I’ll never forget waking up that morning in 1997 to the clock radio playing the song. I knew The Dance was coming but I had not seen the MTV special yet. I don’t think it had aired yet. I remember thinking Wow this fantastic old song finally got its due. Say what you will about Mick Fleetwood’s choice, but it worked out great in the end.

[@barbarawaite5395]

In the late 70s, I worked nights as a data entry operator and had the local radio station on most nights. The DJ played B sides often and that's how I first came to hear this song. Love at first listen. I called and requested it many times. I was tickled to death when it showed up on The Dance.

[@Hummingbirds2023]

I sent this song from the Dance LP to someone I was in love with but knew I couldn't have, it said everything I ever wanted to tell him in just the right way, it touched him very much when we spoke about it, because he KNEW it was the truth. 💔

[@KarenShirey]

Silver Springs was always one of my very favorites.

[@debbiearnold6230]

Such a deep song of deep love. (I truly hope Nicks and Buckingham fine peace and forgiveness, and reconcile 🙏🏻)

[@tauisuitonu8505]

He’s been married since 2000 and has 2 kids. He moved on.

[@Janellabelle]

I'm sure they have. They wouldn't be able to stand on the same stage and sing these songs about each other if they didn't come to terms with it. They'll never reconcile if you mean get back together by that. Lindsey is married with children, and I think the true love of Stevie's life was Tom Petty, and he's sooo unfortunately deceased now. I think she loved him a little more than he loved her though. One of those kinda things...she said she asked him to join The Heartbreakers, lol, and he said no, no, you're the front of FM. Stay there. But when they did that song, Stop Dragging My Heart Around, Stevie said she was just crushing on him so hard. Ahaha what woman wouldn't be though Tom was so beautiful and humble and cute and talented and just seemed like a regular sweet guy but also a rock star. When he died my mom was depressed for days. I swear, she was in mourning. It was probably extra sad for her because he died of an overdose of painkillers, and I was also addicted to pain meds at the time giving her much worries. Prince had died of an OD too and she kept saying it feels like pills are taking everything good from the world.

[@davidjquill9926]

@@Janellabelle It was an *accidental* overdose, according to his wife. He loved weed but never took harder drugs as far as I know. I really, really want to make that clear. The pills that he OD’ed on were *prescription* pain killers. Touring for concerts was taking its toll on his health. The pills he took were legal and prescribed for him by a doctor. He just took one or two too many.

[@maytedrew8638]

Silver Springs and Landslide are my favorite of Stevie Nicks songs. She is super talented and is definitely a Rock and Roll icon.. She can write about intense love. I wish you could forgive Lindsay whether or not they ever share the stage again. It would be good for her soul and end the band with the love that I believe they have for each other.

[@jackandlill]

Same!

[@TheDam1776]

This performance brings tears to my eyes, every time.

[@SilverSprings1997]

This is my all-time favourite Fleetwood Mac song! I remember watching this live performance when it aired in '97 and thinking there was some unfinished business on that stage. She burned a hole through him! Now I understand there WAS unfinished business and she was saying everything with that stare! She is a QUEEN!

[@tduenchan]

I grew up in Silver Springs, MD and the radio stations in the Washington DC area did start to play the song a couple of years after it came out but before the Tusk album. The DJ told a nicer version of the story of the origin. They said that the band saw the highway sign for Silver Spring when they were on tour for the previous album and Stevie had thought it was beautiful name. She and Lindsey were still riding high on the success and originally wrote the beginning verse while their relationship was on an upswing and she was just goofing around. Later when the two of them were ending the relationship she added the last rest of the song.

[@tunesman100]

Fantastic insight thank you!

[@revazquez]

The live performance always gives me goosebumps. So heavy in emotion. Great history lesson about a beautiful song. Thank you!

[@countryboy4542]

I remember hearing this song in '77, I called the station & asked about it, they told me it was the B side of Go Your Own Way. I called often & requested it. Always loved that song!

[@deirdrecorey3876]

20 yrs had passed. You think it's ancient history UNTIL..... You're staring in the eyes, singing these words & bleeding again. They BOTH needed that. Stevie falls in live with the music... there's a pattern. New, shiny, creative & understanding. I think I've been guilty of that...

[@justmusic108]

...27 years ago from that mtv concert... and right into eternity of time and love! Thank you Stevie! And thank you Christine!

[@stusrt]

Wow! I always loved that song - now I love it even more...

[@whoooami2090]

Love that song! It definitely should have been on the album. Much better than go your own way.

[@christine6139a]

It was actually replaced by I Don't Want to Know. Silver Springs is much better.

[@batontwirler1614]

I just saw her in concert and she did this song. It was so beautiful

[@alisonnields6200]

Yes- I too once had a relationship that is comparable to Stevie and Lindsey. The passion, the anger, the love, the friendship. Silver Springs pull at every heart string and my body goes numb every damn time....

[@denisereichart5272]

It makes u cry. One great song to remember!!❤

[@normagrimstad8869]

Rumours is one of the best albums.

[@bethlogan1283]

Fleetwood Mac did make it to NJ. I love Bare Trees & Future Games, they were available as well as a Fleetwood Mac concert at the local college. It was before Nicks & Buckingham. Once they joined, I was permanently hooked on this amazing band. Nobody can make albums like Rumours anymore, it was perfection. I moved to California, & so did they.

[@ginabarfield7716]

It’s a beautiful, heartfelt song. I just sent it to my ex whom I loved very, very much, but he couldn’t love me the same 😢

[@Janellabelle]

You're brave. I want to send it to one of my exes too, but I can't admit I still care enough to think about him. Lol

[@jerrysdancer3769]

This one of my favorite songs of all time. 💞🥲🙏 Chills each time

[@marymenatti9175]

I found it on a juke box in Boston. I played it over and over. It’s my favorite Stevie Nicks song.

[@bookemdano7567]

I remember hearing this song for the first time on 1997 and I said to a friend… I love Fleetwood Mac’s new song Silver Springs and he said it’s not new and I said yes it is… it’s not on of their albums and he said he has it on a 4 cd box set called 25years of the Chain. I found a used copy at a cd store and there was the original version of the song!! I couldn’t believe it! I’m so glad it’s made its way back to the Rumours album where it belongs!

[@TheTaffyTaff]

One of the most powerful performances ever. So emotional.

[@AidaSillerRodriguez]

Gives me goosebumps everything time I see the live performance video. Song has a very special meaning as I can relate to the love Lyndsey & Stevie have for each other, but couldn't make it work for them. After 34 years, I had to say goodbye to the love that will always hold my heart. The toxicity was too much towards the end.

[@kathyroberts2311]

Very intense song. Brilliantly written and performed!!

[@cdpmusic]

Also worth noting, Stevie gave all song royalties of Silver Springs to her mom. Which is a big reason why she was such an advocate for it getting on an album.

[@markfellows6828]

Thanks so much for the background to this incredible song. I remember the first time I heard it and the intensity of the final crescendo of the song. A real masterpiece.

[@jacktrout]

This was an incredible story thank you so much. My sister tunred me onto them at 10 years old she was 25, we were living in the Bay Area and right in the middle of this. Been to Plant Studios, I am very grateful for your knowledge on this story.

[@ashleyb4537]

My sister played it all the time when it was the B side of Go your own way. Years later, I had to search for it as my sister had moved out. It is one of my favorite Stevie Nicks songs ever! She is The Queen of Rock n Roll!!!

[@bg9217]

Powerhouse, i felt the anguish thru my phone - Imagine being in the front row for that performance..❤

[@deborahwest3209]

I get goosebumps- everytime.

[@beanie7547]

I remember buying the go your own way single and played silver springs repeatedly. I even suggested it at the disco which after weeks of suggesting they finally played. Such a beautiful song. So glad it finally was able to shine for Stevie

[@marshabass3393]

I love the Buckingham Nicks album it is beautiful !

[@tunesman100]

It really surprises me that the album is not commercially available for sale or on streaming platforms. Seems like an easy money maker 😮‍💨

[@Horseluvver]

Sunflower & your face... Yeah it's a great album! Can't remember how I got the album...don't have it anymore.

[@sharonyoung7251]

I LOVE “ Silver Spring s”- Beautiful Song….A Shame it wasn’t included on “ Rumours “ or Tusk!!!- I aLOVE that it was included on The Dance “- Fantastic , DVD!! 🌈💫🇦🇺💙🌈🌟

[@Historian212]

Agree, I watched the special on TV and bought the album. Fantastic.

[@WarWorksProductions]

One of my all time favorite live performances. Nothing like it