Fleetwood Mac have denied a report in the Daily Mail that they are to reunite to play at JK Rowling’s 60th birthday party.

A representative told Rolling Stone that the story was “categorically false” and “not in the realm of true”.

The band last played together in November 2019. Both the death of Christine McVie in 2022 and Lindsey Buckingham’s earlier firing, in 2018, were assumed to have made any reunion impossible.

“Without Christine, no can do,” Stevie Nicks told Mojo last year. “There is no chance of putting Fleetwood Mac back together in any way. Without her, it just couldn’t work.”

She added that Buckingham’s health, after emergency open-heart surgery in 2019, would preclude him from “the kind of touring that Fleetwood Mac does”, going out for 18-month stints, “even if I thought I could work with Lindsey again”.

The Mail reported that Rowling is planning a two-day celebration for her 60th with a James Bond theme. Blondie previously played at a party thrown by the author in 2017.

Despite there being little chance of a full Fleetwood Mac reunion, it does appear there has been a rapprochement between Buckingham and his former bandmates. He and Mick Fleetwood play on a new single by Miley Cyrus, Secrets, released last week.

And he has participated in a teaser campaign for a new reissue of Buckingham Nicks, the sole duo album he and his original bandmate made prior to joining Fleetwood Mac in 1975, sharing joint Instagram posts riffing on the release.

Apple is producing a new documentary on Fleetwood Mac, the first to be authorised by the band. Directed by Frank Marshall, who also made the Bee Gees film How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, it will feature new interviews with the surviving members.

Rowling’s most recent book is The Hallmarked Man, the latest under her Robert Galbraith pen name.