natalie cole--
grammy award wininning singer
coke head/prostitute
#1 album, grammy award winner again

tina turner--
60's/70's hot singer
welfare
grammy awards, #1 albums sold out tours

vanessa williams
miss america
dethroned, shunned
#1 singles, grammy awards, sings title track to disney animated film pocahontas

kem
homeless
#1 r&b album, successful tour
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meltwithu said:

good list!!!

prince
legacy: releases string of hot albums in the 80s
downfall: releases "jughead"

comeback from disgrace: next single is "7"

meltwithu said:

My vote goes to Kem. He was homeless in Detroit's Cass Corridor and still made it. That deserves an award all it's own!!
[Edited 10/22/05 10:19am]

natalie cole was a prostitute??

dancerella said:

About this title: In this autobiography, Natalie King Cole thanks God for helping her walk away from prostitution and crack cocaine addiction. Although she received Grammy awards for her debut album in 1975, it was not until the mid-1980s that she admitted herself to drug rehabilitation center. After winning her battle against crack, she realized that she had to confront her biggest fear: living in the shadow of her father, Nat King Cole.

the Bee Gees - they were successful in the late 60s/early 70s but sank into oblivion. So bad the record company refused to release their album and told them their time had passed them by.

Instead of accepting that, they went back into the studio and reinvented themselves. Their image was still so bad that the record company initially released the first track from their new album without saying who it was. The track was Jive Talkin, which started a string of hits (including 6 consecutive #1 singles) that eclipsed their earlier success and made them the biggest act of the 70s and the 5th best selling act of all time.

They sank into oblivion again after that because of some strange backlash over how successful they were in the 70s, yet bounced back again with several successful songs including You Win Again (#1 UK), One (top 10 US/#1 US Adult contemporary), Alone (top 10 US adult contemporary)

Cher

famous singer and actress

damaged image with damn infomercials

scored her biggest hit ever with "Believe"



Motley Crue

famous rock and roll band of the 80s/early 90s

severely low record sales and concert attendance/more focus on Tommy Lee's dick

Strong selling reunion tour/scored first hit in God knows when with "If I Die Tomorrow"



Meatloaf

famous rocker from the seventies

forgotten and broke

scored number one album and song in the 90s

i thought natalie cole was a heroin addict. in the bio movie about her i remember heroin being a big deal. crack too? and prostitution? dag, she has even whitney beat!

SassyBritches said:

no cuz we didn't have to see it all over tv.....

Biggest comeback from oblivion: Tina Turner and Carlos Santana.

Both artists released hugely successful comeback albums that gave their careers a second chance.

Am I the only one here to remember the oblivion the Bee Gees were in before Main Course? Biggest comeback from oblivion isn't even close. After sinking deep into oblivian, they came back with 5 straight platinum albums - Main Course, Children of the World, Here At Last... Live, Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, Spirits Having Flown. They came out of that string with 7 #1 singles, what then was the biggest selling album ever, and multiple grammy awards. All for a group that was told by their own record company that their time had passed them by.
[Edited 10/24/05 6:53am]

Mike did ok, i guess.....

after the 1st molestation accusation, nobody thought he'd sell again, but sold 15 {or 30} million w/ history.....

but i dont think that competes with all the other people {drugs and all}

Nvncible1 said:

I PREDICT THE BIGGEST COMEBACK IS YET TO COME: MJ one more time

manthevan said:

DavidEye said:

Their comebacks were more than just record sales.

I like Natalie Cole but TMI.

Rhondab said:

true, true.

newskin69 said:

Don't forget he stared as the bus driver in Spice World and the man with
breasts in Fight Club

Mariah Carey has comeback in a pretty big way, though not from anything as
serious as drugs or poverty

thekidsgirl said:

no.

just insanity.

alandail said:

Surely the most successful comeback of all time.

They went from selling around 8 million albums between 1967-74 to selling roughly 50 million albums between 1975-80. That's quite a leap.

SassyBritches said:

good med compliance doesn't count does it?