Their egos were part of the package. But hard to say they didn't back it up. I would agree there were a few misses on the album. But the hits were not only huge hits but the kind of songs everyone knew and can still sing along too, even to this day. "Champagne Supernova" is the hidden gem on this record for sure. It's so long in duration though that it was hard for many radio people to program it back in the day. But given the amount of channels and bandwidth nowadays you hear it pretty often. Which is cool.