Lindsey Buckingham, lead guitarist and a key songwriter for Fleetwood Mac for more than half of its existence, is again leaving the group, this time just two months before its new tour, the band said in a brief statement Monday.
"Lindsey Buckingham will not be performing with the band on this tour," the statement said. "The band wishes Lindsey all the best."
NBC News reports the immediate fate of the tour wasn't known Monday night. The band's website substituted an art illustration from one of its albums for its group photo, and a link to the planned tour returned a dead page.
Rolling Stone and Variety, without naming their sources, reported that Buckingham had been fired — a not-implausible development in light of the band's tumultuous 50-year history. Buckingham himself left the band in 1987 and stayed away for almost a decade, returning only to play at Bill Clinton's presidential inauguration in 1992.
As news of the breakup spread, Mick Fleetwood, a co-founder of the original band in 1967, said in a statement that Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Neil Finn of Crowded House would replace Buckingham on the planned June tour, specific dates for which haven't been announced.
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