It takes a lot of hard work, talent and good
old fashioned luck to go from a garage to a sold-out stadium tour. But all too frequently, those successful bands
of brothers and sisters end up walking away from it all, and splitting up forever. Thanks to creative disagreements, personality
clashes, or the siren song of the solo career, here are the bands whose reasons for breaking
up, are as singular as their music. Eagles For a bunch of laid-back California hippies
who sang smooth hits like "Peaceful Easy Feeling," certain Eagles weren't feeling it. In July 1980, the band wrapped up its tour
with a fundraiser for Senator Alan Cranston. Pre-show, Cranston personally thanked the
band, and guitarist Don Felder replied, quote, "You're welcome, Senator… I guess" according to bandmate Glenn Frey. Frey confronted Felder, later remembering, "Felder looks back at me and says, 'Only three
more songs 'till I kick your ass, pal.' And I'm saying, 'Great. I can't wait.'" However, in his memoir, Heaven and Hell: My
Life in the Eagles, Felder claimed that Frey "...came over while we were playing 'The Best
of My Love' and said: 'F--- you. I'm gonna kick your ass when we get off stage.'" The next day, Eagles bassist Timothy B. Schmit
called Frey to see what was up, and Frey told him the band was done. But while you can check out of the Eagles,
you can never leave — the band reunited for a massively successful tour and live album
in 1994, and they continue to tour, albeit with a changing lineup, today. Blondie A devastating illness shut down Blondie in
its prime, snuffing out one of the most popular bands of the late '70s and early '80s. Singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein,
who together wrote "Heart of Glass," "Dreaming," and "Rapture," were also romantic partners
— and when Stein got sick, it consumed Harry's life, too. According to the New York Post, around the
time of the band's official breakup in 1982, Stein was diagnosed with a rare disease which
caused painful blistering on his skin, mouth, throat, and lungs. For several years, Stein was out of commission
and Harry stayed by his side. Harry told Saga in 2014, "People say that I nursed him, but I was his
mate, you know, and went to the hospital and stayed with him." Blondie reformed with a different lineup in
the '90s, for better or worse. The Clash Once christened "the only band that matters,"
The Clash sputtered out in 1986. In 1999 frontman Joe Strummer claimed that
band members were exhausted, saying, "I felt we'd run out of idea gasoline." But Strummer gave another reason: the band
didn't want to turn into their dads — or, at least, rock 'n' roll dinosaurs. Strummer said, "We saw what The Who were like at the end
of their tether. It's a bad scene. You quickly turn into nothing." Uncle Tupelo In the late '80s and early '90s, Uncle Tupelo
was pioneering the roots-rock "Americana" sound. And the band's most prominent members, Jay
Farrar and Jeff Tweedy, then went on to mainstream success with new bands Son Volt and Wilco,
respectively. So what happened to Uncle Tupelo? Creative differences between Tweedy and Farrar,
which led them to stop talking. Then, drummer Mike Heidorn left. But Farrar told Relix in 2005 there was one
more issue: the creep factor. When Farrar's then-girlfriend Monica Groth,
was sleeping, Tweedy had stroked her hair…and Farrar caught him. Farrar said, "I found out later that he was telling her
stuff, like, her loves her." Farrar hung on, but eventually quit the band
for good — blowing up Uncle Tupelo in 1994. Queensrÿche It was the end of a prog metal era. Queensryche singer Geoff Tate told Rolling
Stone in 2012, "We've all known each other for 30 years. For it to end in such a hostile way, it's
just mind-boggling." Tate said the trouble started early that year,
when he and the band's management objected to the rest of the band's decision to turn
over its merch management to an outside company. But the catalyst for the split, was a pre-show
altercation. While backstage at a gig in Brazil, Tate confronted
the band about rumors that he was about to get replaced — as various members of management
and crew had just been fired, all of whom were Tate's relatives. Just before the band hit the stage, Tate says
drummer Scott Rockenfield said, "We just fired your whole family and you're
next." The show went on as planned, but that was
it for the founding vocalist of Queensryche. The Zombies Sure, The Zombies' 1968 track "Time of the
Season" frequently pops up in movies now, but when their album "Odessey and Oracle"
first came out, it was a flop. Or so they thought. Keyboardist Rod Argent told Express that the
band's income cratered because, "Our fees for playing live had gone down a
lot, and we had no money." The Zombies split because they couldn't afford
to stay together. Argent explained, "We later found out after we'd broken up that
we had hits at some place in the world at almost any time. It was just in the U.K., we had less success
than anywhere else!" Lead singer Colin Blunstone remembered, "By the time the album was released, there
was no band. Time of the Season was a hit two years later." The Everly Brothers Don and Phil Everly were really brothers,
were really successful musicians — and they fought and bickered like both. The story goes that Don informed Phil that
their July 1973 show at LA's Knott's Berry Farm would be their last as a duo, because
he was, quote "tired of being an Everly Brother." Then Don showed up drunk to perform, Phil
left the stage, smashing his guitar on the way out, and the Everly Brothers were over,
except for an occasional reunion. Jane's Addiction They may have been right there at the rise
of "alternative rock," but recording their 1990 breakthrough album Ritual de lo Habitual
was so tension-fraught that Jane's Addiction agreed to do the first Lollapalooza tour in
1991, organized by Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell, and then break up. That was probably for the best: Jane's Addiction's
set on the first Lollapalooza ended early because Farrell and guitarist Dave Navarro
got into a fight in front of thousands of fans. By 1992, Jane's Addiction was done… for
at least a little while. Adam and the Ants For the first iteration of Adam Ant's punky/New
Wave band, the substance matched the style — the band's debut record Dirk Wears White
Sox sold well, and besides, they had to be good if somebody tried to poach most of their
musicians. Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren also handled
Adam and the Ants, but when he quit in 1980, he convinced everyone in the band except Adam
to join him. McLaren used them to create a new band called
Bow Wow Wow — best known for its cover of "I Want Candy." Ant then found some more guys who like crazy
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