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Originally Posted by bombaysaffires
And the Azoff stuff makes me still bang my head against the wall trying to figure Lindsey's logic in having him as his personal manager. Did he think having Irving "on side" would somehow mitigate things? What a bad judge of character.
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I've always wondered the same thing. I read "Buckingham officially signed with Azoff’s company around 2010–2011".
What were the conditions, the situation in those years that led Lindsey to hire him as his manager? " In 2010, Ticketmaster merged with Live Nation, making Irving Azoff the Chairman of Live Nation by 2011. As part of this massive infrastructure, Azoff oversaw Front Line Management, which already handled individual members of Fleetwood Mac. Around 2011, Buckingham decided to release his sixth solo studio album, Seeds We Sow, independently. To guide his solo career through this transition, he officially brought on Irving Azoff and Tom Consolo as his personal managers. While different members of Fleetwood Mac historically used different representation (for instance, Stevie Nicks was long-managed by Howard Kaufman), signing Buckingham brought the band's core moving parts under Azoff's unified umbrella. This alignment streamlined the planning for Fleetwood Mac’s massive global tours in the 2010s".
That's what Google answered but it mentions LA Times as one of the sources. Anyway, at the end that simplified tour planning didn't work at all in April 2018.
I'm sure in 2010 Lindsey already knew the kind of person Irving is. So the only answer I can think of is... business is business.