{"id":2038143,"date":"2025-09-21T01:04:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2038143"},"modified":"2025-09-21T01:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:04:58","slug":"no-fleetwood-mac-is-not-playing-j-k-rowlings-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/no-fleetwood-mac-is-not-playing-j-k-rowlings-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Fleetwood Mac Is Not Playing J.K. Rowling\u2019s Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While there are legions of fans desperately wishing and waiting for an official Fleetwood Mac reunion, it most certainly will not happen at J.K. Rowling\u2019s birthday party. After reports began circulating over the weekend that Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood were set to perform at the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> author\u2019s upcoming party in November, <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> confirmed that no such reunion will take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis is categorically false,\u201d a representative for Fleetwood Mac tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s not in the realm of true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fleetwood Mac <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/watch-fleetwood-mac-perform-don-182332052.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:last played together;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">last played together<\/a> at a benefit concert for UCSF Benioff Children\u2019s Hospitals at San Francisco\u2019s Oracle Park on November 19, 2019. And after the death of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/farewell-christine-mcvie-songbird-knew-130950529.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:singer-keyboardist;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">singer-keyboardist<\/a> Christine McVie in 2022, Nicks made it clear that there was no hope of any possible future reunions. \u201cThere is no more Fleetwood Mac now, because when Christine died, Fleetwood Mac died,\u201d Nicks<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/stevie-nicks-believe-church-stevie-140000893.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:told;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\"> told <\/a><em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/stevie-nicks-believe-church-stevie-140000893.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rolling Stone;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Rolling Stone<\/a> <\/em>in 2024. \u201cWe cannot replace her.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Plus, those who know the history of Fleetwood Mac know it would take more than a birthday party to get the band back together at this point. Fleetwood Mac formed in 1967 and performed with variations of their group until McVie\u2019s death. When McVie stepped away from the band in 1998, the remaining members, Nicks, Fleetwood, John McVie, and Buckingham, carried on as a quartet.\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/qa-christine-mcvie-cant-wait-for-fleetwood-mac-world-tour-183753\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:McVie returned to the group in 2014,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">McVie returned to the group in 2014,<\/a>\u00a0but long-simmering tensions between Nicks and Buckingham boiled over four years later, and\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/fleetwood-mac-fire-lindsey-buckingham-200300550.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:the group dismissed Buckingham.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">the group dismissed Buckingham.<\/a>\u00a0They toured in 2018-19 with Mike Campbell and Neil Finn covering his parts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mick-fleetwood-reunion-with-lindsey-buckingham-imagines-fleetwood-mac-farewell-tour-1134758\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fleetwood made peace with Buckingham in 2021;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Fleetwood made peace with Buckingham in 2021<\/a>, and expressed hopes he could return to the band one day, but Nicks has said that was never going to happen. Nicks and Buckingham <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/origin-story-stevie-lindsey-144700463.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:did recently reissue;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">did recently reissue <\/a>their 1973 joint album, <em>Buckingham Nicks<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The closest thing fans might get to a reunion any time soon will come in the form of a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/fleetwood-mac-documentary-1235172169\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:documentary;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">documentary<\/a>, which was announced last year. Filmmaker Frank Marshall is set to helm the authorized feature-length project for Apple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The film is currently untitled, and a release date has yet to be announced, but the project is set to include new interviews with the f our core surviving members, as well as never-before-seen footage, and new and archival interviews with McVie. The film will find Fleetwood Mac reflecting on their more than five decades together, from their heyday in the Seventies up through the present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.rollingstone.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:RollingStone's Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">RollingStone&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/31XsHSx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TkcoeG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2TntOHq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there are legions of fans desperately wishing and waiting for an official Fleetwood Mac reunion, it most certainly will not happen at J.K. Rowling\u2019s birthday party. After reports began circulating over the weekend that Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood were set to perform at the Harry Potter author\u2019s upcoming party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2038144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[376624,42020,376623,42286,309156,314737,311726],"class_list":["post-2038143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-christine-mcvie","tag-fleetwood-mac","tag-john-mcvie","tag-lindsey-buckingham","tag-mick-fleetwood","tag-rolling-stone","tag-stevie-nicks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/No-Fleetwood-Mac-Is-Not-Playing-JK-Rowlings-Birthday-Party.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}