Importance of Stevie versus Lindsey

[DownOnRodeo]

In addition to the personality traits mentioned by bombaysaffires (Stevie as quite extroverted, Lindsey as quite introverted),
I think it's very relevant to their relationship dynamic and differing personalities/careers that Stevie is an eldest child and Lindsey a youngest.

As an eldest child, Stevie feels comfortable calling the shots. She's even the one who insisted they join Fleetwood Mac. And in interviews (particularly post-Rumours), she feels comfortable leading the discourse. It just comes naturally to her. To answer her own rhetorical question from Sorcerer: "Who is the master?" She is. Even when the content of what she's saying is more deferential, like the recent remark "I'm not the boss in FM," the way she says it is very declarative and absolute. It doesn't so much matter what she says ("Station Man is a Christine song" etc.), it's the confidence she embodies when she says it that makes her so appealing and makes her a 'star' (of course in addition to great songs and great looks). Also she's not afraid of self-branding--"queen of rock" "welsh witch" "the gypsy urchin look."

Lindsey on the other hand, as a youngest child, while super articulate of course, is often smiling sheepishly to the camera as if seeking approval, his eyes downcast (compare Stevie's steely, almost hypnotizing focus on her interviewers), and whereas throughout much of his career he ultimately ended up relying on his "big brothers" and "big sisters," he comes across as neurotic about it, i.e. needing them around him but resenting it at the same time. And unless I'm mistaken, he never allowed himself to be incarnated as a metaphor--like Stevie as the queen of rock or the white-winged dove or whatever other thousand names she's been labelled as, or like Springsteen being 'the Boss', Billy Joel 'the Piano Man', and Elton John 'Rocket Man.' It's like that line in Batman Begins:

People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne [Read: Lindsey Buckingham]. As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.

I agree with everything in bombaysaffires post, but just wanted to add the 'eldest/youngest child' aspect.