As I've always said, the other 4 broke the unspoken rule of Fleetwood Mac that apparently they didn't realize, even though I think it was painfully obvious to fans.
That rule was: you can start all the albums you want and you can court Stevie for her participation all you want. HOWEVER, it is not permitted to continue said project(s) after she bows out. All Fleetwood Mac projects are shelved indefinitely without the blessing of Stevie. Renaming a Fleetwood Mac album as not a Fleetwood Mac album does not count, because it still makes Stevie look bad. Everyone and their mother saw she was the odd one out.
To this day I wonder what would of happened had they chose to re-record Mick and John's part with other musicians so even on paper it couldn't be argued a Fleetwood Mac album sans-stevie.
The rub was always the fact that they had the balls to release a Fleetwood Mac album without her by simplying changing the name. The media, everyone picked up on that and she knew it too. It goes against her entire narrative of there only being one troublemaker in Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham. This project painted her out to be the issue.
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