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> Supporting members of boybands with significant solo success
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Sour Candy
post 26th June 2012, 07:14 PM
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Inspired by ThePensmith's thread: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=143555

Are there any?

Talking about Upper Street sort of stuff. Members nobody cares about but who might have had some success on charts.
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post 26th June 2012, 07:21 PM
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Matt Willis from Busted. laugh.gif

Well, I thought his debut solo single 'Up All Night' was better than all of Busted's back catalogue combined. biggrin.gif
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post 26th June 2012, 07:25 PM
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From the thread mentioned above, I was thinking about Antony Costa and Mikey Graham but top 20 is not that much of a success really..
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post 26th June 2012, 09:48 PM
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QUOTE(Hitstastic @ Jun 26 2012, 08:21 PM) *
Matt Willis from Busted. laugh.gif

Well, I thought his debut solo single 'Up All Night' was better than all of Busted's back catalogue combined. biggrin.gif


Yes! I loved Matt's stuff. It was the most in the 'spirit' of Busted but it wasn't like the total joke that was Son of Dork - all their songs of which are actually now in the new musical 'Loserville' that James is directing and has written!

Simon Webbe would be another contender here - I loved both his solo albums - and also JC Chasez from my above mentioned thread!
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post 26th June 2012, 10:01 PM
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is everybody forgetting Robbie Williams?
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post 26th June 2012, 10:18 PM
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Robbie Williams, Ronan Keating & Justin Timberlake are the only ones i can think of that have had real success away from their bands
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post 26th June 2012, 10:56 PM
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I think the purpose of the thread is to find "supporting" members of bands who have had solo careers. Ronan, Robbie and Justin were out front...
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post 26th June 2012, 10:59 PM
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I thought the reason Robbie left was because gary was hogging the spotlight?
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post 27th June 2012, 09:33 AM
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I'm never sure that Robbie was a "supporting" member. The other 3 (Howard, Jason and Mark) are probably.

I could be just saying that though because I don't know Take That in the early years very well and I'm used to Robbie's massive success.
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post 27th June 2012, 10:09 AM
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Simon Webbe is a good one. Good grief, Blue was full of them biggrin.gif

I was thinking about Robbie as well because the first solo verses he sang were on Everything Changes (title track). He was supposed to be a supporting member but didn't accept the role.

Mark was the cute one (=fan favourite) so I'd say he was the second in line after Gary.

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post 27th June 2012, 10:40 AM
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Dave Grohl.
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post 27th June 2012, 10:47 AM
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OOH
Not a boy band but definitely.
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Griff
post 27th June 2012, 03:47 PM
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Duncan James?
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post 27th June 2012, 07:53 PM
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QUOTE(SKOB @ Jun 27 2012, 11:09 AM) *
I was thinking about Robbie as well because the first solo verses he sang were on Everything Changes (title track). He was supposed to be a supporting member but didn't accept the role.


It wasn't that he didn't except the role, he has said that he lost control after he started drinking heavily and taking drugs. He said that he couldn't keep up with TT's tightly controlled management machine which had them waking up in Japan and going to sleep in America and in the end Jason Orange and Nigel Martin Smith (their manager at the time) gave him an ultimatum to either get his act together before the world tour they had coming up or to leave the band. He did the latter and the rest is history.

Mark was very much a supporting member, he did ok, what's he had? 3 or 4 top 5 singles...his album performances was awful though
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