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1. #THE LONELY STAGE PORTRAIT OF RUIN HOW TO#
2. #THE LONELY STAGE PORTRAIT OF RUIN FULL#
3. #THE LONELY STAGE PORTRAIT OF RUIN PROFESSIONAL#
4. #THE LONELY STAGE PORTRAIT OF RUIN TV#

It led to huge hits like “I’m a Believer,” “Daydream Believer,” and “Pleasant Valley Sunday.” But the TV show was cartoonish and aimed almost exclusively at children. They had a foolproof formula where their TV show promoted their music, and their music turned around and promoted the TV show. In 1967, the Monkees were as big as the Stones and the Beatles and anyone else in pop music. Justin Timberlake rips off Janet Jackson’s top at the Super Bowl, and she’s the one who faces a backlash.When they reformed in 1983, Jon Anderson was back in front. They’d be like, ‘That’s not Jon! That’s not Rick!’ Chris said it was an absolute nightmare from start to finish.” The group broke up when the tour ended. “He said, ‘We’d walk onstage and people would cheer and be like, “Hey, Steve! Hey, Chris! Hey, Alan! Who the hell is that?’ They had this fat, dumpy guy at the front singing and Geoff Downes. “ Chris told me later it was a nightmare,” Wakeman said. They cut the LP Drama and tried to tour without making a big fuss about the whole “our singer and keyboardist are no longer in the band, but here’s the ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ guys instead” thing. That’s when their manager had the idea of simply folding Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes of New Wave band the Buggles, who he also managed, into Yes. “It was the equivalent of turning up at the Vatican and being like, ‘Can we put up some condom machines?’” They attempted to cut a new record in Paris, but the sessions went so poorly that Wakeman and lead singer Jon Anderson wound up leaving the band. “Prog rock was so wonderfully out of fashion,” keyboardist Rick Wakeman told Rolling Stone in 2019. Yes were not in a good place when the Seventies ticked over into the Eighties. A Taste of Honey wins Best New Artist Grammy over the Cars and Elvis Costello.The Sex Pistols were born to crash and burn, and that’s exactly what we did.” “But it wasn’t in our destiny to have a progressive phase where we made a folk record and went on tour with Barclay James Harvest. “Maybe the chemistry would’ve sustained us to do another album if Matlock had hung around,” guitarist Steve Jones admitted in his memoir, Lonely Boy. Sid Vicious may be an icon, but he didn’t do much in the band besides cause chaos and speed up the timeline of their inevitable breakup.

#THE LONELY STAGE PORTRAIT OF RUIN HOW TO#

Instead, they brought in a heroin addict that had no clue how to play the bass or write anything resembling a song. The band could have survived and perhaps even thrived if they’d brought in a competent replacement capable of playing his parts and contributing to future songwriting sessions. Despite that, they fired him in early 1977 after months of tension between him and Johnny Rotten. Glen Matock wasn’t just the bassist in the Sex Pistols, but also one of their key songwriters.

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#THE LONELY STAGE PORTRAIT OF RUIN FULL#

But it hit after the “Disco Sucks” backlash was in full force, and John made baffling choices on the LP, like turning Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. The move may have alienated some of their original fans, but that hardly mattered when you have songs as big as “Miss You,” “I Was Made For Lovin’ You,” and “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” And so it’s easy to understand why Elton John, coming off a string of disappointing albums like A Single Man and Blue Moves, decided to team up with English producer Pete Bellotte and craft the disco LP Victim of Love. (To hear our podcast version of this list, press play above, or listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.)īy late 1979, everyone from Rod Stewart to the Rolling Stones to Kiss had created enormous disco hits. Many rock stars have done horribly destructive things when it comes to drugs or their treatment of women, but that’s a whole other list.

#THE LONELY STAGE PORTRAIT OF RUIN PROFESSIONAL#

To be clear, we limited this largely to professional decisions that impacted careers. In this list, we look back at the long history of rock stars’ fuckups and call out the 50 biggest ones. Rock stars, like the rest of us, have to live with the consequences of their actions forever. They can lead to decades of bitter questions: “What if I didn’t wear that pink tank top in the music video? What if I didn’t say we were bigger than Jesus? What if I hadn’t given the Nazi salute at that British train station?”īut there’s no take-backs in life. When rock stars screw up, they do it in epic, spectacular ways, with consequences that are often catastrophic. But most of us regular humans make mistakes on pretty small scales, like leaving our house keys at work or forgetting to order fries in the drive-through.

In the words of the 18th-century poet Alexander Pope, to err is human.