The ten best rock'n'roll comebacks

John Hall
Tuesday 30 June 2009 08:49 EDT
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Blur’s performance at the Glastonbury Festival is already being spoken of as one of the all time great comeback shows. In tribute, we’ve compiled a list of the ten best rock’n’roll comebacks.

This list is not just a selection of reunions. Many big bands have reformed over the years but very few could claim to have had a truly successful ‘comeback’. Criteria for inclusion are as follows:

a) The band or artist must have had noteworthy success in their earlier guise.

b) As a collective, their releases and live shows were either non existent, only attended by apologists/stalkers/family friends for at least five years or critically panned.

c) Their return must have been as commercially or artistically significant as before.

Click on the image to the right to launch our guide.

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