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Originally Posted by SteveMacD
So, for me, right now, I see a parallel to a lot of things with Fleetwood Mac, the main one being that quality doesn't necessarily translate into success
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Which means that one can't make grand Hegelian pronouncements such as "In 1974, they were just about to break before so-and-so joined" or "In 1974, they were on the verge of being megastars."
Maybe they were, maybe they weren't. No one will ever know.
No one will also ever know exactly why they became the biggest band in the world. There are dozens of reasons that are all probably responsible in various degrees, but there's no way of quantifying any of them. It's akin to arguing over how many angels fit on the head of a Sennheiser microphone.