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10 Bandmates Who Bit The Dust

















When bands split, members' fates can differ wildly. Here are the bandmates who bit the dust while their pals retained the fame.

While Morrissey (pictured above) tours to critical acclaim and Marr joins US indie band Modest Mouse, fellow former Smiths members - bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce - are signing DVDs about the Smiths in Manchester.

Here are five other bandmates who bit the dust while their pals shot to fame.

01. Bananarama
Girl band Bananarama was formed by three friends in the early eighties: Siobhan Fahey, Sara Dallin, and Keren Woodward.

But Fahey, who had married Eurythmics' Dave Stewart, gave the group the slip and came up on top fronting Shakespeare Sister along with Marcella Detroit.

The band continued with a replacement for Fahey, but eventually slipped from the pop radar - making the odd record for release in Europe and beyond.

In February 2007, however, it was reported that Bananarama were back in the studio recording new material. Now that Fahey has dropped out of the limelight, perhaps Bananarama will - as did Take That - get a taste of fame once again.

02. Oasis
The band may not have split, but some of the original band members who left the group early on may now be regretting their hasty departures.

Guitarist Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs and drummer Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan left Oasis within days of eachother in 1999.

Although both said it was to spend time with their families, some rumours - and outright claims made by Noel Gallagher - suggest Bonehead's departure was more to do with the usual rock and roll excesses and lots of arguing.

Guigsy now lives outside of London with his family, and occasionally DJs. Bonehead, meanwhile, lives in Manchester, where he has formed a group with ex-Smiths band members Rourke and Joyce called Moondog One. He also DJs.


03. Wham!
While George Michael shot to fame and notoriety in his post-Wham! years, fellow bandmate Andrew Ridgeley disappeared from popular view.

They parted ways in 1986 after five hit-busting years together. After dabbling in this and that, Ridgely retired to Cornwall, where he lives with ex-Bananarama bandmate Keren Woodward.

Here he became an environmental activist as part of Surfers Against Sewage and went on to partner in a surfing goods firm.

Lucky George Michael, meanwhile, is still very much in the public eye - his every drug-driving transgression a front page grabbing feast for the tabloids.

04. Bros
Luke Goss, Matt Goss, big shoes ... but who was the drummer?

The boy band Bros had young girls swooning at every turn, but while brothers Matt and Luke, who danced about at the front, caught everyone's eye, poor old Craig Logan got stuck at the back devoid of attention.

Even when Logan left the band in the late 80s, the brothers kept on touring.

But Logan drew on his behind-the-scenes talents and has gone on to work for EMI records and to manage mouthy pop-starlet P!nk. Last year he took charge of Sony BMG's RCA Records label group.

The brothers, meanwhile, have continued to dabble in the performing arts and sporadically pop up into the public eye.

05. Recovered from obscurity
And, finally, we couldn't forget the band members who have been rescued from relative obscurity through the current trend for rock reformations.

With the likes of The Who, The Police, Take That and now the Spice Girls reforming (or cashing in, whichever you prefer), the lesser fortunes of some band mates are being propped up by the grand success of others.

Without Daltry and Townsend in the Who, Gary Barlow and Mark Owen in Take That and Sting in the Police, these resurrections might not be quite the crowd pullers they currently are.

Source: www.channel4.com

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