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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?
Band | Name | Comments & Submittor Name | ||
| The Champs | Glen Campbell | Glen Campbell replaced one of the original members of the Champs after they had a big hit with "tequila" in the late fifties. The Champs did not fare very well during Glen's tenure with the group. Several years after he left the group, he became a very sucessful country/pop singer and even had his own television show. - Barry Disbrow | ||
| Change | Luther Vandross | Luther Vandross wasn't in the limelight until he went solo. But he did write a song for "The Wiz" called 'Brand New Day'. - Paul Warren | ||
| Commodores | Lionel Richie | He wasn't even the lead singer for the Commodores when he left them. - soul ii | ||
| The Commodores | Lionel Richie | The Commodores were unbelievably great. I wonder though, after Richie started to become famous with his own creations, how much of the Commodores have in reality been Richie, all the time. Our retrospect is forcibly distorted, but imagining Lionel Richie as "simply" the lead-singer in a band, be it a group like the Commodores, looks like an impossibility, to me. - Athletic Ears | ||
| Crash Test Dummies | Ellen Reid | After she belted out that cover of XTC's "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" for the soundtrack to "Dumb and Dumber," almost everybody who ever heard of the band must've wondered why Brad Roberts is the lead singer. - The Skuz | ||
| Cream | Eric Clapton | Cream broke up in 1968, and Clapton was also with Blind Faith and Derek & The Dominos. - oldrock | ||
| Creed | Scott Stapp | Sooooo much better off alone - Toots |
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