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Most breakups feel final. Members drift into solo careers, lawsuits get filed, and fans learn to live with old records. Then, occasionally, a stage lights up again decades later.
The eight bands below all came back after a gap of more than twenty years, whether for a concert, a tour or a new album. Each case is different, and a few of the reunions came with real limits. Here they are, roughly in the order they happened.
The Stooges
The Stooges formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the late 1960s and broke up in 1974. Their raw, abrasive sound sold modestly at the time, though it later became a blueprint for punk. For almost thirty years, the band existed mostly as a legend.
That changed in 2003, when Iggy Pop reunited with guitarist Ron Asheton and drummer Scott Asheton, with Mike Watt on bass. They played festivals including Coachella that year. In 2007 they released a new album, The Weirdness. Ron Asheton died in 2009 and Scott Asheton in 2014, which makes the reunion years more precious in hindsight.
Cream
Cream lasted only a little more than two years. Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker said goodbye at London’s Royal Albert Hall in November 1968. The trio’s relationships were famously strained, so a return looked unlikely.
Yet in May 2005 they played four nights at that same hall, almost thirty seven years later. A run of shows at Madison Square Garden followed in…
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Author : Matthias Binder
Publish date : 2026-10-08 12:45:00
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