Rock and Pop: What is your favorite band break-ups?
Which one did you think was the most entertaining, and which one had the greatest impact on you?
Which one did you think was the most entertaining, and which one had the greatest impact on you?
Anonymous
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Neither of mine are full-fledged breakups. As for entertaining, I thought David Lee Roth leaving Van Halen was a hoot, I wasn't as enamored of them as my friends were and hearing them wail about it tickled my root.
As for biggest impact, it wasn't a breakup but a tragedy. I grew up in Orlando, Florida and in 1982, to celebrate my 16th birthday which was a few days after the show, for the first time I was being allowed to attend a rock concert unaccompanied by my parents. The show was dubbed Rock Superbowl XIV and while Foreigner was headlining, the star attraction and my reason for wanting to go was Ozzy Osbourne. It wasn't to be though, cuz literally the day before the show Randy Rhoads was killed in a plane crash north of Orlando. Ozzy didn't perform and obviously his band was never the same again.
mars
Oasis, The Stray Cats ('Blast Off'): https://youtu.be/mQzFPfk93_Q
Julie S
It's not a breakup, but it broke my heart when my old friend Jason Newsted had to leave Metallica.
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For me, it's Refused. They broke up after they released The Shape of Punk to Come, and they released a very strongly worded letter that described why they broke up. Here's a link to the letter: https://web.archive.org/web/20120117175926/http://www.burningheart.com/refused/refmanifest5.htm In fact, one of the songs from The Shape of Punk to Come is titled "Refused Are F****** Dead".
Anonymous
Guns 'n Roses had to be the one. They were doomed from the start, as Steven Adler could barely function, right at the point they became the biggest rock n roll band in the world. Less than a year later Izzy Stradlin realized (to his credit) that if he didn't get the hell out of the lifestyle and go home to Indiana, he was going to be dead in a matter of months. After he left the band never wrote another decent original song. And then, the spectacular dramatic meltdown with Axl, Slash and Duff. Oh how I love the 3 albums they put out in their prime (I don't count "Lies", because it was a record company money grab, even though it had Patience, their very best song of all). They could have been spectacular if they hadn't begun to implode almost from the very start.