Iron Maiden…Paul DiAnno sang on the first two albums, and Bruce Dickinson replaced him on album three. Also…Mike Patten joined Faith No More on their third album
Even though Metallica was mentioned upthread…can’t believe no one has mentioned Enter Sandman
Stevie Wonder : I just Called to Say I love You.
That’s how I feel about “And She Was”. Stupid video, too.
From what I hear though, Gary worked awesome at the live shows, because his style worked for the Roth songs and Hagar songs alike. And since he was a huge Van Halen fan without an ego, he worked his ass off to do the songs well live, whereas Hagar used to just phone in the Roth songs and I don’t think Roth does ANY Hagar material.
If Van Halen had stuck with him it probably would have worked out. III wasn’t bad for a first album with a new singer.
My absolute favorite song by her by far and to me one of the best pop songs of the decade.
Cha cha cha!
Ironically, Genesis and Iron Maiden both tried to replace their lead singers a second time, with disastrous results.
Somebody mentioned AC/DC, which reminds me: “Thunderstruck” makes my skin crawl.
In the case of Genesis and Maiden, the singer change didn’t matter, the bands were already commercially failing. And I’d note that in Maiden’s case, the musical change that began with X Factor has continued to this day with Dickinson back.
It always amazes me the love people have for Hey nineteen and other Gaucho songs. I am a total Dan fanatic and I simply can’t abide the disappointment of that song and the whole LP it’s on. Like where did the backbone go?
We Can’t Dance (the last Genesis album with Collins) was their second-best selling album and it spawned five top 40 singles. You call that failing? 
Not only that, but it went #1 in more countries than any other Genesis album: UK, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland. Best I could find is that We Can’t Dance actually was their best-selling album worldwide, with 19.6 million sales, with Invisible Touch second at 14.6 million. (Cite.) Failing indeed. 
Also, in 1992, their tour for We Can’t Dance generated the highest average per-venue gross of any musical act. Collins left in 1993 due to personal and health reasons. With Collins’s departure–that’s when they started to lose commercial steam. Before he left the band, they were at their absolute commercial peak.
Several months ago, I had the classical station on as background noise, and after one piece, the announcer said, “…composed and conducted by Tony Banks.”
Yep. That Tony Banks.
Those mega-hits enabled him to do things like this. 
Can one be ninja’ed by the OP … I really don’t like any of The Beatles hit songs … but the rest are really good for the most part.
Hate Pink Floyd’s The Wall … but enjoy about everything else they did … that’s probably the biggest separation for me … what’s not to love in “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict” … just not hit material.
In that vein, as a fan of both Stevie Wonder’s work and Paul McCartney’s work, both legendary artists team up and what do they produce? That always annoying (#1 Hit) “Ebony & Ivory”.
My favourite band in the whole word is Duran Duran.
I hate the song “Wild Boys.”
RHCP and this Dark Necessities crap
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An abomination – and a bizarrely popular one at that – by one of the truly great musical artists of all time.
I’m a big Eric Clapton fan but I detest “Change the World”, “Tears in Heaven”, and the slow version of “Layla”.
We Can’t Dance came out in the last year when old rock acts had a shot in the commercial market. They were one of many bands that had a great year in 1991-1992 before the bottom fell out of the mainstream commercial rock market. We can never really know, but I can’t imagine a Phil Collins-led Genesis album selling even one million copies in 1995 or 1996.
I was a big Boston fan except for “Let Me Take You Home Tonight.”
I used to really like Foreigner except for “Cold as Ice.”
Both of those songs seemed really lousy compared to the bands’ other stuff.