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

[elwheelio]

Dr Dre (NWA)
Sting (The Police) - perhaps debatable
Diana Ross
Tina Turner
Cher

 

[WATFORD zero]

I'll see your Paul McCartney and raise you Robbie Williams.

Wings, the band the Beatles could have been

 

[clapham_gull]

Bigger than the Beatles? I would like to think not.

I was tempted to include Lennon in my list but the fact is the Beatles were bigger.

I am a massive non-fan of all three, I have to confess.

whoosh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyZspqjtG2k

 

[Insel affe]

The biggest must be Michael Jackson, surely.

Peodophile ?

 

[Barrow Boy]

Brian Ferry
Eno
Roderick Stewart
Lionel Richie

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Yes, he recorded his ideas on an omsung phine

The original post has been edited. Now, to posterity, I look like a twerp.

No change, there, then

 

[smillie's garden]

94 East. Produced Colonel Abrams, and some bloke who called himself Prince.



(Too be fair, this might be some later remix)

 

[METALMICKY]

Gary Moore / Thin Lizzy

Certainly Gary's blues dominant second half of his solo career did very well. Whether it exceeded Lizzy is debatable. As an aside did you know he is buried in Rottingdean?

 

[CHAPPERS]

Sophie Ellis Bextor - Theaudience
Miles Kane - was in a few bands including Little Flames who were great.

 

[Mancgull]

Certainly Gary's blues dominant second half of his solo career did very well. Whether it exceeded Lizzy is debatable. As an aside did you know he is buried in Rottingdean?

I did.
Let’s go Joan Jett /Runaways
(And before anyone gets pedantic, yes I know it’s Joan Jett and the Blackhearts), but every rocker will need a band)

 

[hart's shirt]

Beyonce (Destiny's Child)

Gloria Estefan (Miami Sound Machine)

Chaka Khan (Ask Rufus)

Diana Ross (The Supremes)

Gwen Stefani (No Doubt)

 

[Pevenseagull]

Alison 'Yazoo' Moyet

 

[Pevenseagull]

Lionel 'Commadores' Richie

 

[smillie's garden]

I did.
Let’s go Joan Jett /Runaways
(And before anyone gets pedantic, yes I know it’s Joan Jett and the Blackhearts), but every rocker will need a band)

Don't forget Lita Ford, who became more successful than The Runaways (they were only "big in Japan").

 

[happypig]

David Johansen/Buster Poindexter
Wilko Johnson
Steve Winwood

As for Weller, he peaked in the Jam, nothing since has been as good.

 

[jakarta]

Well it has to be Professor Eno doesn't it?

Has had a great solo career but far more important as a collaborator and producer with more Great Artists / Bands than you can shake a stick at.

Also could be cited as the first really influential Ambient Musician.

On the other hand Lionel Richie did do Dancing on the Ceiling

 

[BN9 BHA]

I'll see your Paul McCartney and raise you Robbie Williams.

 

[BN9 BHA]

As for Weller, he peaked in the Jam, nothing since has been as good.

100% this.

 

[studio150]

Alice Cooper (Alice Cooper)
Paul Carrick (Ace)
Nick Lowe (Brinsley Schwarz)
Jonathan Richman (The Modern Lovers)

 

[Weststander]

Bob Marley - The Wailers broke up in 1974, but he kept the name for his backing singers.

Justin Timberlake - NSYNC

Bobby Brown - New Edition

Gerry Rafferty - Stealers Wheel