Lindsey Buckingham – Go Insane
After going solo, Lindsey Buckingham released his debut in ‘Law And Order’ in 1981. The single, “Trouble” went Top 10!
His second album, ‘Go Insane’ peaked at #45 on the Billboard 200 album chart in 1984, based mainly on the title track. “Go Insane”, the single, peaked at #23 on the Hot 100.
Buckingham has said in an interview that the song was an outlet for all the years of being in Fleetwood Mac with former girlfriend, Stevie Nicks.
“We were disintegrating as couples, by virtue of that, we were suffering as people. So in order to get work done, I had to go through this elaborate exercise in denial – leaving whole areas of baggage on the other side of the room, compartmentalize feelings… no time to get closure, to work things out… working in a very highly charged and ambivalent environment. So the go insane thing – would just be whenever I let my guard down and got back to all the things I hadn’t dealt with, it was almost like going insane – like I always do. Took a long, long time, working in an artificial environment on a personal level. So many things not worked through for a long, long time.”
