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Star Magazine, 1992 A steamy new book is threatening to blow apart rock supergroup Fleetwood Mac. Lead singer Stevie Nicks is so mad at Mick Fleetwood for revealing details of their love life in his up-coming autobiography that she's stopped speaking to him during the band's current U.S. concert tour. Nicks, 42, is furious that Fleetood revealed they had a love affair during the Seventies. The sultry vocalist has had several long relationships during her 15 years in Fleetwood Mac, including one with former band guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, but she'd never been publicly linked with Fleetwood, 46, the group's drummer and founder. And Christine McVie, the band's other female lead singer, is also fuming because Fleetwood delved into personal details about her life with the late Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson. Nicks and McVie refused to apear with Fleetwood on a recent Los Angeles radio show. "Stevie and Christine aren't talking to me at this point," he admitted. "Because of the book, it's high anxiety, nervoiusness and everything is tensed up. I might be traveling on a seperate plane." The book, My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac, isn't due out until October 17th, and Fleetwood hasn't shown any advance copies to his entourage. "None of us, not even the band members, has been allowed to see it," says a band spokeman. But a torrid teaser about his taking up withe Nicks was enough to send the singer into a frenzy. "It will not be a joke if I don't like what's n this book," Nicks says. "I told him, 'I'll just sue you for everything you have, and then you'll be penniless again.'" "She's a bit p--ed off, you know, but it's all true," admits Fleetwood, wo has detailed the band's heavy drug use, which helped send him into bankruptcy and led Nicks to the Betty Ford Center for cocaine addiction in 1986. One band insider says Fleetwood couldn't have picked a worse time to spill the beans on fellow band members. The band's 1977 recording, Rumours, is the second best-selling album of all time, behind Micheal Jackson's Thriller, but its recent releases have done little to expand the group's popularity. "The band is on tour, trying to win back old fans and make new ones, and Mick just drives a stake through their heart," the insider says. "Mick went bankrupt in 1984, but he's recovered. he can't need the money this book is going to make for him so badly that he'd destroy his band."
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