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Who were the unluckiest group?

posted 8 years ago by jefgg
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The original lineup of Styx has been very unlucky.

Dennis DeYoung - lead vocals and organ - Currently struggling as a solo act
John Curulewski - guitar - Passed away in 1988 from a brain aneurysm
Chuck Panozzo - bass - Living with HIV
John Panozzo - drums - Passed away in 1996 from gastrointestinal hemorrhaging
James Young - guitar - the only original member left in Styx

John "J.C." Curulewski left the band in 1975. He was only 37 years old when he passed away. John Panozzo was only 47 when he passed. In 1999 Dennis DeYoung was afflicted with a chronic fatigue syndrome-like disorder that affected his trigeminal nerve and made him unable to perform onstage due to a sensitivity to bright light. DeYoung asked his bandmates to delay touring, but they decided to carry on with singer-pianist Lawrence Gowan. Chuck Panozzo left Styx in 1999. He sometimes joins the band onstage as a guest. James "J.Y." Young is the only Styx member who has appeared on all their albums.

[–] TheHiawatha 7 years ago

I think Lynyrd Skynyrd takes the cake. Right in their prime, three of their members, including the lead singer, were killed in a plane crash. Yeah, they've done music since then as a band, but they never again got anywhere close to their glory days, and have pretty much been pegged as a nostalgia act under Lynyrd Skynyrd's name.

"Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station."

[–] Bootselectric (165) 3 years ago

That’s easy, Winger.

[–] mtxmind (3296) 2 years ago

Without a doubt, one of the unluckiest & saddest story's in rock belongs to the group Badfinger. Widely hailed as the only worthy successors to The Beatles (so much so that many people belived they were actually The Beatles incognito), the band inadvertantly suffered decades of legal , managerial financial, & personal turmoil directly (& indirectly) related to The Beatles breakup & demise of Apple Records. The vast majority of their recorded output wasn't even released on CD until the early 2000s.

After Apple Records folded in 1973, Badfinger struggled with a host of legal, managerial, and financial problems, leading to Ham's suicide in 1975. The surviving members struggled to rebuild their personal and professional lives against a backdrop of lawsuits, which tied up the songwriters' royalty payments for years. Their subsequent albums floundered, as Molland and Evans alternated between co-operation and conflict in their attempts to revive and capitalise on the Badfinger legacy. Evans died by suicide in 1983, and Gibbins died from a brain aneurysm in 2005, leaving Molland as the group's only surviving member.

[–] zaq123 (2389) 2 years ago

The Allman Brothers sure had their share of bad luck. First Duane, one of the greatest guitarists of all time, dies in a motorcycle accident and then almost exactly 1 year later their original bassist Berry Oakley dies the same way (via motorcycle crash) 3 blocks from where Duane had his wreck.

[–] WarrenPeace (2267) a year ago

Every country band or act.
Listen to a few of their songs and you will find out why.