10 Musicians Whose Careers Were Destroyed By Just One Album

Fronted by outspoken lead singer Justin Hawkins, glam rock revivers The Darkness scored a huge hit with their early noughties debut album 2003's Permission to Land. Featuring the massive single "I Believe In A Thing Called Love", the album won them moderate critical acclaim and plenty of commercial success, seemingly heralding a revival of shamelessly corny over-the-top pop as the self consciously cool Brit Pop era drew to a close.

The outfit looked set to follow up that initial success with their sophomoric effort two years later...

And that's where it all came crashing down.

From its goofy title onwards, everything about One Way Ticket to Hell (And Back) called to mind the most light-hearted excesses of Queen and Adam Ant without any of the original heroes of glam rock's occasional attempts at more sombre song writing.

However, where many of the artists on this list changed their sound and became unrecognizable to fans, The Darkness’ fatal flaw was the opposite. The second album expanded on the sort-of-spoof, sort-of-sincere glam rock sound of their first, and despite winning reasonably solid critical write ups, the world at large had moved on from the brief nostalgic infatuation.