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Compare and contrast the musical applications of [[Growing the Beard]].
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== Straight Examples ==
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** Amusingly, in the case of [[Iron Maiden (Music)|Iron Maiden]] and [[Iced Earth (Music)|Iced Earth]], they band's best-known frontmen weren't even the original singers for the band. Though in both cases, the frontmen also weren't the ones writing most of the songs.
* Russian heavy metal band Aria lost its lead singer, Valery Kipelov, who decided to start his own solo project. The replacement, Arthur Berkut, became a major source of [[Broken Base]]: some think he's as good as Kipelov, some think he's a [[Replacement Scrappy]].
* On [[April Fools' Day]], 2008, [[Brave Saint Saturn (Music)|Brave Saint Saturn]] announced that lead singer and guitarist Reese Roper was leaving the band, and that bassist Keith Hoerig would take his place. It was, of course, a joke--made funnier by the fact that Reese had started the band in the first place so he could record some songs that wouldn't fit the style of [[Five Iron Frenzy (Music)|that other band he was in]].
* Parodied in the [[Rammstein (Music)|Rammstein]] [[Music Video]] for "Haifisch", which has the other band members discussing a replacement to the lead singer Till Lindemann....at the poor guy's (fictional) FUNERAL. [[Metallica (Music)|Metallica]]'s James Hetfield seemed a popular choice.
** In [[Real Life]], the band has stated that if any member dies or retires, they will break up, averting this.
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* [[Iron Maiden (Music)|Iron Maiden]] was a decent metal band before [[Bruce Dickinson (Music)|Bruce Dickinson]], and released two albums during his seven-year absence from the band. But they are definitely a more successful entity with Dickinson up front.
* After the techno duo Blue Amazon split up, Lee Softley continued producing solo under that name.
* 2 Unlimited was reformed as a girl group after the original two members, Ray and Anita, parted ways. It didn't last long, as [[One
* After [[Black Sabbath (Music)|Black Sabbath]] fired [[Ozzy Osbourne (Music)|Ozzy Osbourne]], they went through numerous lineup changes, hiatuses, failed tours, lukewarm album releases whenever Dio wasn't in the lineup... Ozzy, for his part, had his own television show and is a cultural icon in his own right.
* The Stranglers recorded ten albums, the last four being international hits. They went for an eleventh (called ''10'', just to confuse matters), which fell flat. Singer Hugo Cornwell left, considering them a spent force, but the band kept going. The band's 2004 album ''Norfolk Coast'' and single "Big Thing Coming" were mildly successful, but ''far'' less so than the albums made when Cornwell was in the band.
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