BUCKINGHAM NICKS (RHINO HIGH FIDELITY) AVAILABLE SEPT 19, 2025

 

BUCKINGHAM NICKS (RHINO HIGH FIDELITY) (SINGLES EDITION) $79.98

Availability: Pre-Order, released on: 09/19/2025

Bundle includes:

• Buckingham Nicks (Rhino High Fidelity) 

• Buckingham Nicks (Rhino High Fidelity Singles) 

PREORDER (this numbered version with the singles is now sold out at Rhino.com)

Bundle Includes:
Buckingham Nicks (Rhino High Fidelity)

• AAA Cut From The Original Stereo Master Tapes By Kevin Gray
• Pressed On 180-Gram Heavyweight Vinyl At Optimal
• Heavyweight Glossy Gatefold Jacket
• Features An Exclusive Insert With New Liner Notes From David Fricke In Conversation With Stevie Nicks And Lindsey Buckingham
• Limited Numbered Edition Of 5,000

Buckingham Nicks 7-inch Singles 
“Crying In The Night” b/w “Stephanie” 
“Don't Let Me Down Again” b/w “Races Are Run”

• AAA Cut From The Original Stereo Master Tapes By Kevin Gray
• Pressed At Optimal
• Packaged In A Heavyweight Gatefold With Rhino HiFi Branded Polys
• Limited To 2,000

THE 7" WILL BE A ONE-TIME LIMITED-EDITION PRESSING! THESE ARE ORIGINAL SINGLE MIXES THAT DO NOT APPEAR ON THE L.P.

“[We] knew what we had as a duo, two songwriters that sang really well together. And it was a very natural thing, from the beginning.” - Stevie

 “... it stands up in a way you hope it would, by these two kids who were pretty young to be doing that work.” - Lindsey

BUCKINGHAM NICKS, the only studio album by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks as a duo, will be reissued for the first time on September 19. Originally released in 1973 and unavailable for decades, the album has been sourced from the original analog master tapes for its long-awaited return to vinyl.

Released on September 5, 1973, BUCKINGHAM NICKS quickly faded from commercial view but never disappeared from the cultural conversation. Recorded at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles and produced by Keith Olsen, the album introduced Nicks and Buckingham’s tightly wound harmonies and sharply contrasting songwriting voices across 10 tracks—ranging from the folk-rock shimmer of “Crystal” to the sunbaked strut of “Don’t Let Me Down Again.”

Its legend only grew with time. In late 1974, Mick Fleetwood visited Sound City while scouting studios to record Fleetwood Mac’s next album. To showcase both his production work and the studio’s sound, Olsen blasted “Frozen Love” for Fleetwood in Studio A. The song reflected the full scope of the album’s ambition and chemistry—and immediately caught the drummer’s attention.

Soon after, when Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Welch left the band, Fleetwood reached out to offer Buckingham the spot. Instead of agreeing, Buckingham insisted that he and Nicks were a package deal. Fleetwood agreed, and on New Year’s Eve 1974, the two officially joined Fleetwood Mac — launching one of the most celebrated chapters in the band’s history.

Though their work with Fleetwood Mac would eclipse it commercially, BUCKINGHAM NICKS endures as a testament to what came just before: a partnership in full creative bloom. 

ABOUT THE RHINO HIGH FIDELITY SERIES
Rhino is synonymous with high-quality reissues, setting the standard with award-winning audio releases for the past 45 years. Now we're raising the bar with a new premium vinyl series, Rhino High Fidelity. These high-end, limited-edition vinyl reissues of classic albums represent the pinnacle of sound and packaging.

To ensure consistent sonic excellence, Kevin Gray will cut lacquers for all Rhino Hi-Fi releases, and Optimal will press the 180-gram vinyl records. The releases boast high-quality glossy covers and “tip-on” jackets, an old-school aesthetic that evokes the golden age of vinyl.

Press Release

ALSO AVAILABLE AS A SINGLE HIGH FIDELITY LP $39.98

PREORDER (this numbered version (without the singles) is now sold out, but there are still unnumbered LP version available with a fall ship date) - Preorder

Available in Canada at Warner Music

Available in the UK at This is Dig

Available in Australia at JB Hi-Fi

AVAILABLE ON 1 CD $14.99 PREORDER

Colored Vinyl

Custard (Amazon Exclusive)

Amazon US | Amazon CA | Amazon UK | JB Hi-FI AU

Baby Pink (Indie stores)

Check your local reccord stores or online

Violet (Books A Million Exclusive) 
Check your local BAM Book store OR

Pre-order Online

Baby Blue (General retail)

This is Dig UK | Amazon UK | Rhino US | Amazon CA

Rhino Reserve Fleetwood Mac's Tango in The Night August 29 Release date

Coming August 29, 2025: Available at Rhino.com and at select retail.  

You can pre-order now at Elusive Disc

• Part of Audiophile Vinyl Series Rhino Reserve! 
• Lacquers Cut from Analog Tapes (for the first time) by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab! 
• Pressed on 180g Premium-Quality Vinyl at Fidelity Record Pressing!

Label: Rhino

Size: 12"

Format: 33RPM

This 3x Platinum-certified 1987 studio album features the classic lineup of Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood. This is their most sonically advanced album featuring stellar production work by Lindsey Buckingham and longtime associate Richard Dashut. Pressed locally on 180-gram premium-quality vinyl at Fidelity Record Pressing's brand-new plant in Oxnard, California as part of Rhino's Rhino Reserve line.

Features

• Rhino Reserve Audiophile Series
• 180g Premium-Quality Vinyl
• Vinyl LP
• Lacquers Cut from Original Analog Masters by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab
• Pressed in Oxnard, California at Fidelity Record Pressing

Tracklisting

Side 1:

1. Big Love
2. Seven Wonders
3. Everywhere
4. Caroline
5. Tango in the Night
6. Mystified

Side 2:

1. Little Lies
2. Family Man
3. Welcome to the Room...Sara
4. Isn't It Midnight
5. When I See You Again
6. You and I, Pt. II

In December 2024, Rhino Entertainment launched Rhino Reserve, a premium vinyl series designed for audiophiles and collectors alike. This new line offers legendary albums reissued on 180-gram black vinyl, with a focus on exceptional sound quality and faithful packaging.

Pressed at the state-of-the-art Fidelity Record Pressing plant in Oxnard, California, Rhino Reserve titles promise top-tier audio fidelity. Titles will be cut by acclaimed mastering engineer Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab.

True to Rhino’s reputation for quality, each Rhino Reserve release is housed in heavyweight board jackets with original-style packaging. Additional touches include Rhino Reserve-branded labels and a custom Fidelity-branded poly sleeve to ensure both durability and aesthetic appeal.

Priced at $31.98, these meticulously crafted reissues are available at Rhino.com and select retail locations. For vinyl enthusiasts seeking a high-fidelity listening experience without compromising the spirit of the original album, Rhino Reserve sets a new benchmark.

The Difference between Rhino Reserve and Rhino High Fidelity

Rhino Reserves and Rhino High Fidelity are both audiophile-grade vinyl reissue series from Rhino Entertainment, but they differ in their focus and pricing. Rhino Reserves emphasizes preserving the original album's packaging and sound, using original analog tapes and period-correct artwork, while Rhino High Fidelity focuses on delivering a high-fidelity listening experience, potentially with some modern adjustments to the sound, and often with unique features like tip-on jackets and custom OBI strips. 

Rhino Reserves:

• Focus: Authenticity of the original release.
• Packaging: Emphasizes replicating the original album's jacket, potentially including heavy board jackets.
• Source Material: Cut from original analog tapes.
• Price: Priced lower than the Rhino High Fidelity series.
• Example: The series might include a reissue of an album that closely mirrors the original pressing, including its sonic characteristics. 
  

Rhino High Fidelity:

• Focus:
  Delivering a high-fidelity listening experience, potentially optimizing sound for modern equipment. 
• Packaging:
  May include high-gloss, heavy-weight gatefold "tip-on" jackets and custom OBI strips. 
• Source Material:
  Typically cut from original analog tapes as well, but potentially with adjustments made during the mastering process to enhance clarity and detail. 
• Example:
  A reissue might feature a more dynamic and detailed sound than the original, with a modern mastering approach that emphasizes clarity and impact. 
• Features:
  May include exclusive content like new interviews, essays, and notes. 
  

In essence, Rhino Reserves aims to be a purist's choice, preserving the original experience as closely as possible, while Rhino High Fidelity aims to offer a premium listening experience, potentially with some adjustments to the original sound. 

“This is High Fidelity without the bells and whistles,” says Rhino senior director of A&R Patrick Milligan. “But these are in retail,” unlike the Rhino High Fidelity releases, which are only sold online. Milligan says the series will be sourced from analog masters, with the same attention to detail as the High Fidelity Series, and that the records will be pressed at Fidelity Records Pressing, the new plant owned by company behind Mobile Fidelity reissues. (The High Fidelity series is pressed at Optimal, in Germany.) They will be cut by mastering engineer Matthew Lutthans.

Check out this interesting youtube video with Steve Westman, Patrick Milligan, Matthew Lutthans 

They talk about the 1975 Hi Fidelity Fleetwood Mac release and the Tango in The Night Rhino Reserve release - which Matt states that after he was sent the reels and analyzing them these masters were never used before. So this vinyl version is cut from the half inch 30 IPS original mixdown master that's never been done before.

Buckingham Nicks CD, Digital and Vinyl Variants Available Sept 19

Buckingham Nicks, the only studio album by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks as a duo, will be reissued for the first time on September 19th.

Originally released in 1973 and unavailable for decades, the album has been sourced from the original analog master tapes for its CD and release.

Released on September 5, 1973, recorded at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles and produced by Keith Olsen, the album introduced Nicks and Buckingham’s tightly wound harmonies and sharply contrasting songwriting voices across 10 tracks—ranging from the folk-rock shimmer of “Crystal” to the sunbaked strut of “Don’t Let Me Down Again.”

In late 1974, Mick Fleetwood visited Sound City while scouting studios to record Fleetwood Mac’s next album. To showcase both his production work and the studio’s sound, Olsen blasted “Frozen Love” for Fleetwood in Studio A. The song reflected the full scope of the album’s ambition and chemistry—and immediately caught the drummer’s attention.Soon after, when Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Welch left the band, Fleetwood reached out to offer Buckingham the spot. Instead of agreeing, Buckingham insisted that he and Nicks were a package deal. Fleetwood agreed, and on New Year’s Eve 1974, the two officially joined Fleetwood Mac—launching one of the most celebrated chapters in the band’s history.

Buckingham Nicks will be available on CD and digitally remastered by Chris Bellman, who also cut lacquers for several 1LP vinyl variants: 

Buckingham Nicks (Rhino High Fidelity) was cut by Kevin Gray from the original masters and pressed on 180-gram vinyl.

CD Pre-order available on Amazon.UK

Baby Blue Vinyl Version

Amazon Exclusive Custard Version

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham seem to be putting aside their differences

‘Buckingham Nicks,’ the missing link of the Fleetwood Mac saga, is back

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham’s 1973 album prefigured their pop triumphs in Fleetwood Mac but was lost in the streaming era. That could change Sept. 19.

Sean Scheidt/For the Washington Post

By Ethan Beck
Washington Post

Lineups came and went, but only one version of Fleetwood Mac became a legend. After joining the group in 1974, vocalist Stevie Nicks and singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham supercharged the then-B-tier British blues act with a California folk sensibility. What resulted was the glistening, drama-spiked pop rock of “Dreams,” “Don’t Stop,” “Gypsy” and more than a dozen other hits over the next 15 years.

But before Fleetwood Mac — and way before their creative partnership ruptured, seemingly permanently — Buckingham and Nicks made an album together. And for years, hearing it wasn’t easy.

That’s seemingly about to change. Last weekend, the two musicians each posted a line from “Frozen Love” across their social media accounts. It’s an aching tune from the album “Buckingham Nicks,” the commercially unsuccessful album they released in 1973. Mick Fleetwood, the band’s drummer, joined in on the fun and posted a video of him listening to “Frozen Love,” prompting glee from fans.

Their “marriage of coming into Fleetwood Mac when they did, it’s all in this song,” said Fleetwood in the video. “It’s in the music, played on for so many years. It was magic then, magic now. What a thrill.”

The questions began: Would they finally put “Buckingham Nicks” on streaming services, from which it has been absent? Is it getting remastered? What about a reunion? On Monday, a billboard of the “Buckingham Nicks” album cover and the date “Sept. 19” appeared on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, all but announcing its rerelease. Beyond Nicks and Buckingham’s social media posts, they haven’t confirmed anything.

The 1973 album set out the duo’s Laurel Canyon-inflected sound, which convinced drummer Mick Fleetwood to ask Buckingham to join his band. Fleetwood sought out the guitarist after hearing “Frozen Love” at Sound City Studios, and Buckingham told him that he and Nicks — musical and romantic partners — were a package deal. The pair quickly joined Fleetwood Mac. “That album holds up pretty well,” Buckingham said a 2024 interview with Dan Rather. “It did not do well commercially, but it certainly was noticed. And more important, it was noticed by Mick Fleetwood.”

The apparent reissue, which Buckingham and Nicks teased frequently throughout the 2010s, follows decades of fan bootlegs. After Polydor Records let “Buckingham Nicks” go out of print, it endured as a coveted find at used record stories and in bits and pieces scattered across Nicks’s and Buckingham’s discographies. The duet “Crystal” was remade for Fleetwood Mac’s 1975 self-titled album, a notch more polished than the more biting Buckingham Nicks arrangement. The bouncing “Don’t Let Me Down Again” appeared on almost 15 years of Fleetwood Mac set lists, finding a home on 1980′s “Live.” When touring in 1974 as Buckingham Nicks, the duo tried out a handful of future Fleetwood Mac hits, including “Rhiannon” and “Monday Morning,” for the first time live

The original “Buckingham Nicks” record remains the best place to understand how Nicks and Buckingham would shake up Fleetwood Mac and classic rock. Nicks’s assured, fierce voice shines throughout, while Buckingham’s steely, fingerpicked acoustic guitar anchors a majority of the songs. But you can also hear what’s missing. As good as Nicks and Buckingham sound together, it’s natural to long for Christine McVie to round out their harmonies. Meanwhile, the session musicians — including ones who played with Elvis Presley, John Lennon and Bob Dylan — don’t match drummer Fleetwood’s might or John McVie’s supportive, thoughtful bass lines. (But how many ever did?)

Just last year, singer-songwriters Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird released “Cunningham Bird,” their full-length cover of the “Buckingham Nicks” album, where the arrangements focused on Bird’s violin parts and Cunningham’s muted guitar playing. Yet the melodies still jump out, especially on the stripped-down renditions of “Crystal” and “Lola (My Love),” which Cunningham described as a “sex blues ballad.” Bird said the lack of a “Buckingham Nicks” rerelease was a good reason to record it.

“It’s this storied prequel to Fleetwood Mac, and you hear all the kind of drama brewing in the songs,” Bird said to Variety. “So that appealed to me, that it was inaccessible to a lot of people.”

That drama would become almost as famous as the music. After dating in the early 1970s, Buckingham and Nicks broke up after joining Fleetwood Mac, and theirs wasn’t the only contentious relationship in the group (that’s a whole other article). Shrapnel from the romance damaged their working relationship, and Buckingham eventually left Fleetwood Mac after the success of 1987′s “Tango in the Night,” while Nicks followed in 1991. The golden-era lineup reunited in the ’90s, but Buckingham was eventually kicked out in 2018. (Christine McVie, who had already stepped back from the group, died in 2022.) Just last year, Nicks said, “There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way” in an interview with Mojo.

The music, of course, endures, and the intra-band intrigue was most vividly captured on 1977′s “Rumours,” one of the most successful albums of all time (it is still charting, hitting No. 21 on the Billboard 200 for the week of July 26). But the group’s tense power is previewed on “Frozen Love,” which erupts into a solo so dramatic and wailing that it can only be seen as a precursor to 1977′s “The Chain.” During the jolting, stirring chorus, Nicks and Buckingham sing, “And if you go forward/ I’ll meet you there,” which is the line they shared on their respective Instagram accounts. After years of animosity, Nicks and Buckingham seem to be putting aside their differences to share some of this early, thrilling material.

Surprise! "Buckingham Nicks" Set for Long-Awaited Re-Release This Fall

Surprise! "Buckingham Nicks" Set for Long-Awaited Re-Release This Fall

After more than 50 years, the iconic 1973 duet album Buckingham Nicks — the cult classic that introduced Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham to the world — is finally getting an official re-release. A mysterious billboard spotted at 7365 Sunset Blvd has confirmed the date: September 19, 2025.

Once thought lost within the entanglement of Stevie and Lindsey's relationship (They both own the masters), I thought this day would never come.  This album helped launch the duo into Fleetwood Mac — and rock history!. Fans, mark your calendars. The wait (and it appears the war) is over.

Timing wise this makes perfect sense. The Fleetwood Mac documentary at Apple Original Films is in production with a release date reported to be in the spring of 2026. Re-releasing Buckingham Nicks is brings the duo full circle.

Will be interesting to see how Stevie and Lindsey handle the promotion of this... If they do anything together at all.  Given this surprise billboard and the two of them posting recently on Instagram lyrics to "Frozen Love" and Mick's video post to kick everything off who knows. We may see them perform live together... Maybe a few shows. 

Official announcement should follow soon.

1st Photo: ChristinaD23