Mick Fleetwood is celebrating again. The 78-year-old Fleetwood Mac drummer has been posting photos from an idyllic-looking honeymoon in Tahiti, where he’s been spending time with his new wife, Elizabeth.
“The South Pacific does its magic!!!,” he wrote on Instagram. “A honeymoon with my love Elizabeth… creating moments to be remembered!! Sun health and happiness!!”
Jordan, who at 56 is over two decades his junior, is not the first to succumb to the charms of the 6’5” musician. Fleetwood Mac are, of course, a band famed for the tumultuous love affairs that helped fuel their best-selling records.
Fleetwood, who has now been married five times to four different women, is certainly no exception to that rule.
Here, we look back at Fleetwood’s wild romantic history:
Jenny Boyd
Fleetwood’s first wife was the model Jenny Boyd, younger sister of fellow model Pattie. (Pattie Boyd is herself a significant figure in classic rock history, having inspired George Harrison to write “Something” before divorcing him and marrying Eric Clapton, who wrote “Layla” for her).
When Mick and Jenny first met in 1963, they were both 16-year-old school children in London’s Notting Hill. There was only one problem: Boyd already had a boyfriend, Roger Waters (who had not yet formed Pink Floyd). After she broke up with him, she dated Fleetwood for a while as teenagers before they drifted apart.
They reconnected a few years later and married in June 1970, when Boyd was pregnant with their first daughter, Amy. They had a second child together, Lucy, but in 1973, during Fleetwood Mac’s “Mystery to Me” tour, Fleetwood learned Boyd was having an affair with the band’s guitarist, Bob Weston. Fleetwood fired Weston and cancelled the tour.
He and Boyd divorced in 1976, but temporarily remarried soon after in order to help their two daughters emigrate to the United States. They split for good in 1978, not long after it emerged that Fleetwood had been having his own affair with one of his bandmates, Stevie Nicks.
Stevie Nicks
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Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham had joined Fleetwood Mac as a couple in 1975, following the departure of guitarists Bob Weston and Bob Welch. Their first album with the group was a huge commercial success, but behind the scenes, Buckingham and Nicks’ relationship was falling apart.
That was when Fleetwood and Nicks began their affair. “Eventually I fell in love with her and it was chaotic, it was on the road, and it was a crazy love affair that went on longer than any of us really remember — probably several years by the end of it,” Fleetwood wrote in his 2014 memoir Play On.
He added: “It suited something in our make-up for a while and we were each other’s perfect playmates. That’s not all it was, but that’s what we needed and what we needed it to be. It was the perfect fantasy.”
Their relationship came to an end around the time Fleetwood began another affair with Sara Recor, the wife of a music manager who also happened to be Nicks’ best friend.
Sara Recor
Fleetwood met Sara Recor through Nicks, while she was still married to Jim Recor. Jim had been the manager of pop duo Loggins and Messina, who toured with Fleetwood Mac, and later co-wrote the Mac’s 1982 track “Love In Store” with Christine McVie.
In November 1978, Recor left her husband and moved in with Fleetwood. Their relationship partly inspired Nicks to write “Sara”, released on 1979’s Tusk and one of the band’s best-loved songs. Nicks has said that Fleetwood is the “great dark wing” referred to in the lyrics, where she sings: “And he was just like a great dark wing / Within the wings of a storm.”
Fleetwood and Recor married in Malibu in 1988, before divorcing in 1995.
Lynn Frankel
The same year he divorced Recor, Fleetwood married PR executive Lynn Frankel. They had first met through her father, who helped handle Fleetwood Mac’s finances.
Fleetwood and Frankel had twin daughters, Tessa and Ruby, in 2002. The relationship proved to be Fleetwood’s longest marriage, but the couple eventually filed for divorce in 2013, citing “irreconcilable differences”. The divorce was finalized in 2015, ending two decades of marriage.
Elizabeth Jordan
Fleetwood’s fourth wife, Elizabeth Jordan, is a former New York school teacher. She’s also a mother of two, Max and Joy, from a previous relationship.
The couple reportedly met in 2020, and have made regular appearances on red carpets in the years since.
Fleetwood’s friend Mike Lawson first revealed the couple’s engagement in March last year, writing on social media: “Mick Fleetwood just texted and said he is marrying his girlfriend of five years, Elizabeth. How cool, finding love and making that commitment is beautiful. Congrats!”
She is a co-director of Fleetwood’s youth music charity, The Mick Fleetwood Foundation, and lists her hobbies as “skiing, surfing, traveling, hiking and fishing with her two children.”