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Sometimes a lead singer gets kicked out of a band, or leaves when their head gets too big for them. How well did they do on their own?
The 20 most recent entries are listed below. There are 101 Better Off Solo entries on the site.
Band | Name | Comments & Submittor Name | ||
| Genesis | Mike Rutherford | Found side success in 1985 with Mike + the Mechanics, but in 1982, as a solo artist, released an album called 'Acting Very Strange' that produced a Top 40 hit in Canada called 'Maxine' - whistledog | ||
| Them | Van Morrison | After Morrison left Them, no one really knew about Them. - Paul Warren | ||
| Dream Theater | John Petrucci | He's got an awesome instrumental prog metal album. I don't have it, but I've listened to some of it on Last.fm. - 2:49 AM | ||
| Hawkwind | Lemmy Kilminster | Lemmy went on to start "Motorhead". A quintessential heavy metal band. Lemmy said after being fired, "I was happy to be sacked from Hawkwind, they didn't have any bollocks anyhow." - Wade Brock | ||
| Montrose | Sammy Hagar | Hagar was the lead singer of the early 70s rock band formed by ex-Edgar Winter Group guitarist Ronnie Montrose. - Rocky Roccoco-Cola | ||
| Steve Miller Band | Boz Scaggs | William Royce Scaggs helped found the group in the 1960's. However, by the time Steve had struck gold with the "Fly Like an Eagle" and "Book of Dreams" albums, Boz had his own hits with such songs as "Lido Shuffle" and "Lowdown." - Martha Hankins | ||
| Velvet Underground | Lou Reed | After being with Andy Warhol in the 60's, Lou Reed made a hit song "Take a walk on the Wild Side" and despite being a hit, Lou Reed actually hated it! - Paul Warren | ||
| The McCoys | Rick Derringer | It's a toss-up here. The McCoys had a huge hit in 1965 with "Hang On Sloopy," which is now the official Ohio state rock song. After this, he found success with Johnny and Edgar Winter, and with his solo hit "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo." He is also noted for being "Weird Al" Yankovic's producer in the 80's. - Martha Hankins | ||
| Genesis | Steve Hackett | The lead guitarist ("Nursery Crime" to "Seconds Out"). Hacket went on to make better Genesis albums than Genesis (Just compare "Duke" with "Spectral Mornings" and you'll smell what I'm cooking. - royal pfizbin | ||
| Destiny's Child | Beyonce | The sales of her solo albums speak for themselves. - shesoul | ||
| Innosense | Britney Spears | She was an original member of this all female vocal group but then she decided to venture out on her own. If not with some mixed results. - Celeste | ||
| Backstreet Boys | Nick Carter | He spun off some hits from his 2002 album Now Or Never but I think he's a little better off with the Backstreet Boys than he is without them. - Celeste | ||
| The Stooges | Iggy Pop | Iggy had the foresight to recognize the "freak-show" that was Alice Cooper,and Frank Zappa (later The Tubes, and The Sex Pistol's),(and MUCH later Gwar, and The Murder Junkies), and turn it into a fun event, and a profitable environment. - princejellyfish | ||
| Hawkwind | Lemmy | After getting sacked from Hawkwind, this dude only went-on to fame and well deserved fortune, as he carved his way through Middle America's keg parties as the phenom known as Motorhead. Although I'm not a fan, you must acknowledge the man's insight into what makes "Testosterone U.S.A." tick - princejellyfish | ||
| Zombies | Ron Argent | He basically ran The Zombies. I don't know what ever happened to the rest of this band. - Paul Warren | ||
| Stray Cats | Brian Setzer | After the 80's, Brian Setzer brought back the Big Band sound that made him popular. He even did a few Stray Cats songs with his Big Band Orchestra. - Paul Warren | ||
| Pure Prairie League | Vince Gill | The band had a hit with "Let Me Love You Tonight", but Vince didn't come into his own until later on the Country music scene, and has since had a record-breaking 18 CMA awards. - Eric | ||
| Genesis | Peter Gabriel | Peter's career wasn't really going all that well, commercially, until the release of his solo album 'So'. Genesis did better with Phil Collins, who has now also gone solo -- except Collins basically sold out. - Eric | ||
| Soundgarden | Chris Cornell | Way better solo, or at least with Audioslave. His work appeared in the James Bond movie Casino Royale. - Eric | ||
| Stealers Wheel | Gerry Rafferty | "Baker Street" was way better than any the 'Wheel ever did. - TullyGirl |
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The Top Ten Contributors To This Section
| Paul Warren | 16 |
| Celeste | 12 |
| princejellyfish | 10 |
| whistledog | 4 |
| oldrock | 4 |
| Eric | 3 |
| Lisa | 3 |
| Matt | 2 |
| Rocky | 2 |
| Michael E Cormier | 2 |
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