The music industry can be fickle and tumultuous at the best of times and promising careers can turn into flops without any real explanation.
Sometimes bonafide stars just seem to burn out or fade away and their label has a raft of new future stars to replace them with, closing them like a chapter in an ongoing book.
But every now and then we get to witness a musician or band come back and be bigger and better than ever before. Here are a few of our favourite case studies.
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