[Nikolaj]

To answer the recent question posted, yes, I knew that LB had left the band and Billy Burnette and Rick Vito had joined well before I bought my concert tickets. It had been well publicized, there were full page photo ads of the new lineup in the concert ads in the Sunday newspapers, and there had been media coverage (magazines and MTV) about Lindsey leaving and it being a bitter split. I think LB being gone was one reason the tour was called 'Shake The Cage' so as not to misrepresent the tour as the same lineup on the 'Tango In The Night' album, though, of course, the tour was done to promote 'Tango'.
I don't think many fans of the band were unaware that LB was gone. Stevie had been quite vocal about the split , a nationally published article in US Magazine later became expanded in a book I have but need to find (ha!) and will later quote from, the paraphrased (here) quote of Stevie's was "IF Lindsey dares to hold up this band when we are ready to tour and need to tour, he will be very quickly shown that the band will go on without him, he can be replaced, Fleetwood Mac has always been about change"- and when the article was published, the Rick and Billy 'in' and LB 'out' tickets were on sale. It seemed fast, at the time, to me. So, I think it was widely known Lindsey had split.