Try to imagine the Stones without Mick Jagger. Or Led Zeppelin with anyone other than Robert Plant on the microphone. It’s pretty unfathomable. But some rock bands (metal and classic) had to do precisely that – test their competence as a group without their frontman at the steering wheel.
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Whether due to acrimonious fallouts or sudden deaths, many bands have had to rise from the ashes and switch things for the sake of staying alive. Sometimes their new line-up worked, and other times, it crashed and burned. Let’s see who remained on top (and, at times, got better) and who slowly perished.