Posted June 26, 201214 yr 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.
June 26, 201214 yr Matt Willis from Busted. :lol: Well, I thought his debut solo single 'Up All Night' was better than all of Busted's back catalogue combined. :D
June 26, 201214 yr Author 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..
June 26, 201214 yr Matt Willis from Busted. :lol: Well, I thought his debut solo single 'Up All Night' was better than all of Busted's back catalogue combined. :D 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!
June 26, 201214 yr Robbie Williams, Ronan Keating & Justin Timberlake are the only ones i can think of that have had real success away from their bands
June 26, 201214 yr 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...
June 27, 201214 yr 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.
June 27, 201214 yr Author Simon Webbe is a good one. Good grief, Blue was full of them :D 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. Edited June 27, 201214 yr by SKOB
June 27, 201214 yr 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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