Interesting how often that happens, innit? Probably part of the deal with the devil, sacrificing the lead singer. Often just before the band get pushed into the stratosphere of so called popularity.
Happened with the beatles and pseudo paul replacing car accident paul, ac/dc, lynyrd skynyrd, joy division, sublime, grateful dead, and plenty of others.
Then you have other cases where the lead singer "went crazy" like syd barrett of pink floyd. Interesting that the barrett/waters era stuff bears almost no resemblance to the far more popular gilmour/waters albums from the 70s like dark side/wish you were here/the wall.
Other entries:
The Grateful Dead
Kanye West
KISS
Elton John
Elvis
Jimmy Buffet
Runners up in the category of "the band is more well known than their actual music":
Pink Floyd
The Who
Nirvana
Happened with the beatles and pseudo paul replacing car accident paul, ac/dc, lynyrd skynyrd, joy division, sublime, grateful dead, and plenty of others.
Then you have other cases where the lead singer "went crazy" like syd barrett of pink floyd. Interesting that the barrett/waters era stuff bears almost no resemblance to the far more popular gilmour/waters albums from the 70s like dark side/wish you were here/the wall.