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[Music] Famous solo artists who started in a well known band before going solo and becoming bigger







Peteinblack

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Icy Gull

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Peteinblack said:
Peter Gabriel (Genesis)

Paul Weller (The Jam)

Bjork (The Sugarcubes)

Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath)

Alison Moyet (Yazoo)
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I’d argue that Gabriel never became bigger than Genesis or Ozzy Osbourne bigger than Black Sabbath.

I’ll let the punks of NSC decide if Weller became bigger than the Jam...
 




GT49er

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Dusty Springfield - The Springfields

Rid Stewart - Steam Packet and the Jeff Beck Band

Kevin Ayers - Caravan and The Soft Machine

Robert Palmer - Vinegar Joe

Richard Thompson - Fairport Convention

Sandy Denny - Fairport Convention

Robert Wyatt - Soft Machine

Lou Reed - Velvet Underground

Phil Collins - Genesis
 




Icy Gull

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GT49er said:
Dusty Springfield - The Springfields

Rid Stewart - Steam Packet and the Jeff Beck Band

Kevin Ayers - Caravan and The Soft Machine

Robert Palmer - Vinegar Joe

Richard Thompson - Fairport Convention

Sandy Denny - Fairport Convention

Robert Wyatt - Soft Machine

Lou Reed - Velvet Underground

Phil Collins - Genesis
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Elkie Brooks from Vinegar Joe too
 


Peteinblack

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Icy Gull said:
I’d argue that Gabriel never became bigger than Genesis or Ozzy Osbourne bigger than Black Sabbath.

I’ll let the punks of NSC decide if Weller became bigger than the Jam...
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In terms of record sales? I believe Ozzy certainly sold more records than Sabbath, because in the 1980s, he benefitted from a wider fan base (Sabbath fans and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal), and then MTV. He also became a star in the US - much more so than Sabbath had ever been.

Meanwhile, The Jam's appeal was limited mainly to punks and a few mods, whereas from the 80s onwards, Weller reached out to a much wider, AOR, audience which had not been into The Jam.

Only opinions, though!
 








Peteinblack

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Uh_huh_him said:
Nick Cave (Birthday Party)

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Good shout!

Love Nick Cave, but I walked out of a Birthday Party gig in Leeds in the 1980s after just two songs - a fekkin' racket (and I like punk!) and the band aggressively goading the audience to provoke a response.
 








GT49er

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Icy Gull said:
Elkie Brooks from Vinegar Joe too
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True, although she had been a semi-successful artiste in her own right before Vinegar Joe - she released he first single 7 years before Vingar Joe were formed!
The lady's had quite an interesting career. Still my favourite song of hers though (and must have been quite a shock to those who had only previously seen her as a balled singer, much on the cabaret circuit!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G51tmiwMlk
 








SUIYHP

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The fat dancer from Take That and the not so fat dancer from N-Sync.

Also a mention for Dave Grohl, I know foo fighters isn’t a solo act and that Nirvana is way bigger, but he certainly elevated himself from the drummer to frontman.
 












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