10 Bands That Got Over Losing A Lead Singer

10. Pink Floyd

In a business all about having a pinup star out front, Pink Floyd makes for a pretty interesting case study. All while making some of the most awe-inspiring prog rock albums ever made, the entire group has kept up a reputation of being relatively faceless, instead letting the music speak for itself. Then again, when you see what fame can do to a person, maybe it's for the best.

Long before the days of Dark Side of the Moon, Floyd's original singer Syd Barrett started the group with a more psychedelic tinge to their sound. Once the slew of popularity started to kick in, Barrett got more and more off the rails, oftentimes resorting to drugs which left him in a compromised mental state. It wasn't even that out of the question for Barrett to stop midway through the song and struggle to even hold his guitar pick.

While Floyd eventually kicked Barrett out of the band, his aura is still felt throughout every one of their later works, with Shine On You Crazy Diamond being a tribute to him and Dark Side of the Moon's resident lunatic attributed to Barrett's lost touch with reality. Floyd may have made it to the other side of the classic rock spectrum...but you have to think, at what cost?