Worst failed solo careers?

What about bands that can't make it after their front man leaves?

Anyone remember Battle Axe from the Alice Cooperless Alice Cooper band?
And I don't know how they did in England, but I don't think those Hoopleless Mott albums charted.

Edit: One Mott album made the bottom half of the 200 and one British Lions album hit the US top 100.

 

Jimmy Page - Outrider?

 

I want to say both Don and Phil Everly. Couldn't get a hit to save their lives when they split, yet produced such wonderful magic together. As an aside, I really like Don's first solo album but it didn't sell very well.

 

Not Hall, but the other guy

 

Emotions in Motion was a top 20 hit in the US.

 

Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor, Brian May, Tony Banks, Jimmy Page.

 

I remember seeing tons of those in the $1 bin.

 

I have the recent reissue of Sinfield's album and it's great that it's still available, but I cringe to think of how few copies that's likely to sell...

As for Haskell, I believe that was a long time coming. Unless I bought a crock, memory insists that it was a single around '02 or so that actually found him some success and that he's largely spent the intervening decades broke and barely getting by.

 

One could argue Keef has had a better solo career than Mick. Not huge selling albums but far more acclaimed.

 

Tony Iommi - the guy was not even allowed to have a solo career (until it was too late) as he had to continue to release under the name Black Sabbath (and his first attempt at a solo album was not succesfull even as a Sabbath release).

 

Seventh Star didn't really sound like Black Sabbath, despite Iommi's iconic playing. It's not really a Sabbath album, and not released as a solo album so it was kind of overlooked at the time, but I thought it was an enjoyable record.

 

Joe Lynn Turner?

 

To a certain degree you´re right, but Phil had a Top Ten hit in 1983 and a No. 14 hit in 1994, both with Cliff Richard.

 

Do you have a death wish or something?

 

Mick Taylor ?

 

Certainly better than most of what was to come under the Sabbath moniker.

 

Of course, in their case, their chart careers were already in the dumps by the time they split.

 

2. 2 Death Wishes.

 

Gregg Rolie didn't exactly tear it up after leaving Journey. Curt Smith bombed after leaving Tears for Fears.

 

Originally the post was not utterly serious. But Iommi is perhaps still an extreme example of a failed solo career.

 

Paul Rodgers has had a lot more post Bad Company success joining other bands than he has solo.

 

And naturally I agree that Seenth Star has not sounded much like a Sabbath album (which is not meant as a negative point).

 

Kevin Rowland, both solo albums bombed.

Joe Strummer, Earthquake Weather did nothing although he got back on track with the Mescalero's

Jim Kerr's solo album did nothing either.

 

Eric Stewart. 10 cc.

 

It's really hard for an instrumentalist to make a go of it as a solo act coming out of a band. Even Blackmore hid behind the Rainbow moniker with a rotating cast of (usually excellent) singers rather than going out under his own name.