What happens to bands whose best days are decades behind them?
Mobius; 400 pages; $26.99. Headline; 384 pages; £20Bruce Springsteen crooned, “well, they’ll pass you by.” The Boss wasn’t singing from experience: his star rose decades ago and never really descended. Other musicians, however, would recognise the sentiment. Stories of one-hit wonders and flashes-in-the-pan abound.
What happens to pop stars is brutal because it is public. One moment you are everywhere, the next you are forgotten. Perhaps such tales resonate because the same arc is experienced by lots of people, albeit in a less dramatic way. Many reach a point at which it becomes apparent they are not going any further in their careers. But they do so without the unforgiving metrics of falling chart positions and poor ticket sales to make them feel worse about it.
Other performers have a moment of horrified clarity when faced with commercial demands. Colin Meloy of the Decemberists, an indie band from Portland, Oregon, which once topped the American album charts, spoke of the divide between wanting to make art and the reality of having to write songs so his bandmates could eat. That imposed such pressure that he had to put the band on hiatus in the early 2010s .
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