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Solo careers........?

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Who are some people who have been in a reasonably succesful band and have then gone on to release solo albums succesfully aswell ie Serj Tankian (is that how you spell it) from SOAD he went on to put out solo albums. Who else can you think of like that?

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Almost a dozen answers and nobody said Neil Young?

How often do you say I need to hear Buffalo Springfield?

Heart of Gold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7M1Se-p7...

Harvest Moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQXnvNwGT...

All along the Watchtower http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_tJnj2j5...

Let's impeach the President http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4kTnP5VJ...

It's just a matter of which solo career you want to choose.
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Nichole Schinger(cant spell her last name) from the pussycat dolls has gone solo and stills works with the group.

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Kelly clarkson has done good
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Dallas Green / City & Color also of band Alexisonfire

Aaron Gillespie/ The Almost also of band UnderOath!
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All further answers will contain Ozzy Osbourne.  I know it.

Except Sabbath wasn't reasonably successful.  They were much more >=o

Also, I love Devin Townsend of Strapping Young Lad's solo band.
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Obviously every Beatle has released multiple popular solo albums.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Things_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight_V...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_(albu...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine_(al...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_(album)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tug_of_War

Pete Townshend of the Who has released several solo albums and had a major hit in "Let My Love Open the Door."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_Glass

Thom Yorke of Radiohead released the successful solo album The Eraser in 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eraser
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john frusciante of the red hot chili peppers

not successful in a commercial sense, but in an artistic and musical sense, very successful IMO
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Dallas Green / City & Color

Jack's Mannequin (from Something Corporate.)
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Iggy Pop!

He was a lot more successful solo than with The Stooges.
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Justin Timberlake

Ryan Adams

Joe Walsh

Brian Wilson

Iggy Pop

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All of the Beatles (Particularly, Lennon and Harrison ex. Concert for Bangledesh)

John Fogerty of CCR

Don Henley of The Eagles

Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath

Levon Helms of The Band

Eric Clapton of Derek & The Dominos, Cream and The Yardbirds

Jeff Beck of The Yardbirds

Gregg Allman of The Allman Brothers

Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin

Les Claypool of Primus & Oysterhead
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ozzy

dio

phil collins

peter gabriel

gwen stefani

beyonce'

robert plant

the list goes on forever......
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Robert Plant from Zeppelin to solo... the elder-statesman of Rock

Ozzy from Sabbath to Ozzy

Dave Mustaine from Metallica to Megadeth... c'mon MD is all Dave

Sting from the Police to just old Sting

Peter Gabriel from Genesis to Peter Gabriel

John Lennon from Beatles to being John Lennon

Paul McCartney from Beatles to being Wings to being Sir Paul

George Harrison from Beatles to being George Harrison

Ringo Starr from Beatles... psych... just kidding!

Eric Clapton from Cream to being Eric Clapton

Don Henley from Eagle to Don Henely

John Fogerty from CCR to John Fogerty

There has got to be more but I am tired...
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