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Sometimes a lead singer gets kicked out of a band, or leaves when their head gets too big for them. How well did they do on their own?

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Band		Name		Comments & Submittor Name
Cold Chisel		Ian Moss		After Cold Chisel disbanded, guitarist and vocalist Ian Moss took a break from the music industry before launching his solo career in October 1986. His debut album "Matchbook", released in 1989, reached number one on the ARIA Albums Chart, where it remained at the peak spot for three weeks and sold more than 200,000 copies. Two singles from the album "Tucker's Daughter' and 'Telephone Booth' reached the Top 10 in the ARIA singles chart. He has released seven more albums as well as playing with Cold Chisel when they reformed in the late 1990s. - GrahamClayton
Cold Chisel		Ian Moss		After Cold Chisel disbanded, guitarist and vocalist Ian Moss took a break from the music industry before launching his solo career in October 1986. His debut album "Matchbook", released in 1989, reached number one on the ARIA Albums Chart, where it remained at the peak spot for three weeks and sold more than 200,000 copies. Two singles from the album "Tucker's Daughter' and 'Telephone Booth' reached the Top 10 in the ARIA singles chart. He has released seven more albums as well as playing with Cold Chisel when they reformed in the late 1990s. - GrahamClayton
Simon & Garfunkel		Paul Simon		Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel had a falling out and they split. Paul Simon then went on to have a very successful solo career, same cannot be said for Garfunkel. - g_randomperson
The Dirty Sock Funtime Band		Nadine Nassar		Nadine was a dancer in the band for only a brief time. She appeared in a few music videos as the teal-haired dancer wearing an orange T-shirt and dancing with the little kids. After leaving the band, she traveled the world and became an opera singer. - Brionna Secret
The Dirty Sock Funtime Band		Mike Messer		Mike Messer, the lead singer and guitarist of the Dirty Sock Funtime Band, is the only member still performing music after the band broke up. - Brionna Secret
Alexisonfire		Dallas Green		His solo project City and Colour has seen a lot more success than Alexisonfire ever did. - Nat
One Direction		Harry Styles		Oh, he's very good solo, especially considering the number of hits he's gotten from his second album! He's known for tracks like "Adore You" and "Watermelon Sugar", both of them bops! One Direction was definitely holding Harry back! - Taylor Swift like a fox
Morning Musume		Sayumi Michishige		Sayumi was a good member during her run with her fellow bandmates at Morning Musume. Hopefully, she's a great soloist now. - Ant Ko
KMD		MF Doom		His solo work helped him rise to fame. 2004 was his golden year. - All-Starr
The Beatles		Paul McCartney		He's very well known through his own name(more than George Harrison)and has fine succes with Hop Of Deliverance. - mads.
2NE1		Minzy		While part of 2NE1, Minzy became famous with 2NE1 songs such as "Fire" and "I Am the Best", which were sung with her then-bandmates - Bom, CL, and Dara. - Ant Ko
Default		Dallas Smith		Dallas Smith crossed genres from the hard rock group Default to a solo career in country music. Smith has become a top performing artist in his home country of Canada. - harderman
Queen		Freddie Mercury		He had fine succes with Living On My Own. - mads..
Edgar Winter Group		Dan Hartman		He's best known for his solo songs, more exactly, his most famous songs(not counting other's versions) are, "I Can Dream about You" and "We Are The Young". - mads.
Kajagoogoo		Limahl		Considering that the band forcibly removed Limahl from the group, taking bad advice from one of their managers that Limahl was the reason why they couldn't shed that "teenybopper" image, I could sense during VH1 Bands Reunited interview that there were still sour grapes between Limahl and the rest of the band. I'm not kidding either. Limahl seemed to still be upset that the band and their managers wanted to "be rid of him!" But despite the awful way that he was let go from the band Limahl still did really well. - Celeste
Fifth Harmony		Camila Cabello		Fifth Harmony did have a couple of hits, but Camila is proving to be so much better solo, what with both "Havana" and "Never Be the Same" hitting number one and all. - Ariana Grande mocha swirl
Pink Floyd		Roger Waters		He spent the later albums during his PF career (pure examples are The Wall and The Final Cut) to himself (vocals, songwriting and the like), so he could've just credited them to his name and put the other band members as "produced by" rather than being kicked out. - Aaron
Vixen		Janet Gardner		She exited her former band in January 2019 to focus on her solo career. - Joey F.
Rage Against the Machine		Tom Morello		He has played in the supergroup Audioslave, released solo acoustic albums under the moniker 'The Nightwatchman', gives tutorials on Youtube about how he makes those innovative-crazy sounds on his electric 6-string ('You Too Can Be a Guitar God!') and on top of that - around 2014 when Little Steven Van Zandt was contractually involved in a movie project, Tom played guitar on the Bruce Springsteen 'High Hopes' album (some tracks, not all) and I saw him sub for Little Steven on that tour. During the band intros tom played a wacky guitar workout. Since it was 2014, the 'Year of the Beatles' (50th anniversary of them 'invading' America, which meant that nearly every band I saw that year played a Beatles song - TRUE), it was find of 'funny' to see Tom Morello w/ Nils Lofgren sharing a mic singing a Beatles song, as well as other NON-PROTEST popular classic gems that Bruce often does near the end of his 4 hour shows. - 2 Guitar Heros Are Better Than 1
Chicago		Peter Cetera		Peter broke it off with Chicago describing his experience with the band as being like a marriage. They divorced. - Celeste

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