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* Sting and [[The Police]].
** Referenced in a [[Milton Jones]] sketch where he is pretending to hold a police [[Waxing Lyrical|interview]] with Sting:
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* [[Hideto Matsumoto|hide]] and [[Tomoaki Ishizuka|Pata]]. In the mid 1980s, hide was the guitarist of Yokosuka Saber Tiger and about to retire to a career of hairdresser work. Pata led his own band, Judy. A little band called [[X Japan|X]] needed a couple of guitarists, owing to their session guitarists having left. The rest can be considered [[Visual Kei]] history.
* Averted by Crosby Stills & Nash after [[Neil Young]] left. All four of them did this with their previous groups to varying extents (Stills and Young with Buffalo Springfield, Crosby with The Byrds, Nash with The Hollies).
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* Inverted by the alt-country bands [[Music/Giant Sand|Giant Sand]] and [[Calexico]]. Joey Burns and John Convertino started Calexico as a side project while they were still playing in Giant Sand's rhythm section. Howe Gelb (Giant Sand's frontman) kicked Burns and Convertino out only ''after'' Calexico became more famous than his band.
* [[Britpop]] group Theaudience had a handful of minor UK hits in the late 90's but broke up after only one album. After the split, the band's singer, [[Sophie Ellis Bextor]], launched an extremely successful solo career.
* The British synthpop group D:Ream had a handful of hits in the early 90's, including a #1 single in the United Kingdom with "Things Can Only Get Better" in 1994. After the band's split, their keyboardist [[wikipedia:Brian Cox
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