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I feel a deep respect for people who experience their 15 minutes and then choose to leave it or move behind the scenes rather than searching for that next addicting dose of fame.

Folks go on to become producers, directors, stage actors, video game voice actors, music label owners, teachers...

It always seems like an interesting story that I would love to know more about, and yet I feel that the act of learning more would itself tarnish their shift, and I try to respect them by digging no further.

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Even if it's longer than 15 minutes, you've got to call it at some point, otherwise it just gets kind of sad.

I'm a bit of a classic rock / prog rock fan. These bands are getting old, and they sometimes have staff changes as a result of band members dying of old age. Went to a Yes concert recently and have kind of mixed feelings about it. It's like Steve Howe and a backup band. I mean it's great that these older artists "still got it" and want to keep doing what they love, but from the point of view of a fan, maybe it's best to call it a day when your best work is firmly in the past.

Like watching Metallica play corporate events and kick over stools.

> Even if it's longer than 15 minutes, you've got to call it at some point, otherwise it just gets kind of sad.

I wonder if that is part of why they called it off. Maybe they've created all of the music they could both come up with? Maybe the creativity tank ran empty?

More like 25 years of fame. :)

I bet a lot of artists develop a drug problem, hit rehab and recalibrate.

The Strokes comes to mind.

I think I read that the lead singer made the best music when on drugs but has since gotten clean. Unfortunately, the music he/they made sober wasn't as well received critically? Something like that.

It wasn't the lead singer (Julian Casablancas) who had a drug problem, it was the guitarist, Albert Hammond Jr. He wasn't any better when he was on heroin, though; the band started out without it.

The Strokes mainly just hated each other after they got famous. Angles, their fourth album, was famously recorded without Julian ever being in the same room as the rest of the band.

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