Former Lead Singers Gone Solo.
You know who I mean, the egotistical twats who achieved iconic status with their former band, & then at the peak of their success decided to fuck off & do their own thing, leaving the band in the shit. I could go on all day, but the two that spring to mind are:-

(1)... Sting. Made some brilliant music with The Police, but when he buggered off, he (somehow) managed to go from strength to strength despite his music being utter garbage. The guy I feel sorriest for is guitarist Andy Summers who seems to have dropped off the face of the Earth...(anybody know what happened to him?) Stewart Copeland can hold his own doing movie soundtracks at least. To be fair to Sting though, he had 2 tracks that I liked, "Englishman In New York" & "Fields Of Gold", all else was SHITE.

(2).... Paul Weller. I can HONESTLY say that I think this guy as a successful solo artist is the most over-rated of them ALL. Brilliant music with The Jam, but not a single solitary song with the Style Council or on his own did it for me.

I think these guys' current success is in place only because of people remembering them with their former band & don't want to admit to the truth about them now being CRAP.
(Stashie is plotting against his blender on, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 16:16, 1 reply)

Weller
You do something to me???
(grumpynurse ,is playing minigolf on, Sun 18 Oct 2009, 20:14, closed)