Here Today... Gone To Hell!

On Led Zeppelin have done it, the Spice Girls have done it and now there?s talk of the mighty Pink Floyd reuniting. It seems there?s no easier money to be had than by a band reforming. Here?s our pick of the comeback kids.

Take That

Reunion rule number one: play down the reasons for reuniting. Something vague such as ?We wanted to see if it would work? is fine, but don?t mention money. Take That were no exception, apologetically stumbling into a 2006 comeback that gave us a greatest hits album, a Brit award, a No 1 single, two successful tours and a new studio album.

The Police

This year?s top-grossing tour, even though the band had not played together for 20 years. Billboard magazine reckons the tour raked in ?100m before merchandising. Each band member will have earned ?50m by the tour?s end.  (playing the IoW festival  :peace:)

Kiss

In 1995 Kerrang magazine asked the singer Paul Stanley if Kiss would reform, and he answered: ?There ain?t a deck of cards with that written on it.? Six months later the Americans, who have sold 95m albums, kicked off the biggest concert draw of the year ($43m in ticket sales).

The Sex Pistols

It?s 30 years since the Sex Pistols released their Never Mind the Bollocks LP, and the ageing punks toured again this year to make the most of it. Never ones to stick to convention, the band broke all the reunion rules and made no bones about their aim: to make as much money as possible. Their first UK reunion, back in 1996, was called the Filthy Lucre tour ? which says it all.  (Playing the IOW  :beer:)

Guns N? Roses

Guns N? Roses formed in 1985, quickly became the world?s biggest band, then split up. The singer Axl Rose insists that he is Guns N? Roses, that he?s entitled to tour under that name with a bunch of hired hands, and that he will release a new Guns album ? Chinese Democracy ? more than a decade after starting work on it.  (Go on Axl, make it a hat-trick, deffo don't want Pink Floyd - even if I don't agree with their comments about G N' F R)

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