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Originally Posted by SteveMacD
You’re probably right.
However, can you blame her? She became the big star of a band largely defined by its rhythm section and the host of great guitarists that passed through its ranks.
As people around here have pointed out, Lindsey was the golden boy and she was the afterthought, largely dismissed, and had to fight to prove her worth. She was the one completely dependent on the others. Now she’s forever the first woman inducted more than once in the Hall of Fame.
So, to have gone from being disposable to becoming so successful in and out of the band that she now calls the shots in the band must have skewed her. How could it not?
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the skewing started well before she had anywhere near the kind of power in the band she has now. Sure her real power began when she went solo and the rest of the band had to swallow the fact that she could easily walk away from them for good. Then of course once she had huge success with WH which proved BD wasn't just a fluke, the deal was well and truly sealed. Especially when LB's solo albums (or Christine's) didn't even come close to matching hers in sales etc.
But plenty of people in and around the band have talked through the years about how the Rumours-era success really went to her head and it became harder and harder even for the band to get in touch with her through the layers of sycophants and handlers and a$$-kissers surrounding her starting then. She LOVED being a STAR and moved lock, stock, and barrel into her own Norma Desmond land. Fame and stardom skewed her first and most. Drugs pushed the delusions even further. The real business power didn't come til the 80s, and she was already well and truly skewed by then.