What if Tusk had appeared in 1977?

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Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott

8 Mirage
7 Future Games
6 Tango in the night
5 Bare Trees
4 [Peter Green's] Fleetwood Mac
3 Fleetwood Mac
2 Tusk
1 Rumours

Reading this "FM albums ranked" thread from the Early Years forum, where some ledgies place Tusk in N.1 and Rumours in N.2, I just thought, what would have happened if Tusk had been released in 1977? And Rumours in 1979? Just switch the album dates.

I don't know how differently Tusk would have been received, but I'm sure that Rumours, though quite successful anyway, would not have been the phenomenon that it was. By 1979 music was already changing.