It took Bill Wyman 27 years to figure out that perhaps his future might best lie elsewhere.

(Or was he pushed?)

he'll sign on?

Until the Grim Reaper came calling for Lawrence Payton the Four Tops recorded, toured and sang together for about 40 years

Radiohead qualify... 15 years unchanged.

I don't understand he's been in the band this long and doesn't like their mamagement? Also the most interesting thing about the Ub40 how have they paid for 900 members people for 30 years, So solid crew only managed it for 5 minutes.
Also isn't this just a case of song writer can't be bothered anymore syndrome, jacks it in and lives of royalties see the Stranglers, slade etc.

Come close. They have the same line-up now as they did in 1971, although both guitarists took a break in the late 70s/early 80s and were temporarily replaced.

Dare I mention Rush again? Same lineup since 1974.

U2 still have the same lineup as when they started which must be coming up on 30 years now - didn't Bruce Springsteen call them something like "the last band where I can name all four members".

And Phil Collins left Genesis in the mid '90s having been there since the very early '70s.

Bill Berry retired after 17 years of service and embarked on a new career as a hay farmer. The band were never the same after his departure.

in the management office, what am I gonna do?

the first press release say he was looking to further his solo career - now he's left 'cos he didn't like the management? At least it wasn't musical differences, all their songs sounding roughly the same...

Aren't Iron Maiden still somewhat unchanged since their original vocalist got eaten by Eddie back in the day?

They changed their name back to The Regulars.

The original 7 are still together. Admittedly, the keyboard player left, they (ahem) replaced the rythym section and added "The" to their name, split, reformed as a 7, guitarist got a bit cross and left for a while but at this moment in time the seven original members are still present after 29 years.

I'm minded of an interview with Simon Nicol, sole founding torch bearer from fairport, but still having a period when he left and a period when the band disbanded to deny him unsullied service since '67. His future aspiration for the b(r)and was that the "greatest folk-rock band in the world" could keep going long after his demise and after all existing currents have demised, by the signings of new blood to keep the team going, much as brass bands and orchestras continue for centuries under the same name, giving out much the same product.

This was big news on Midlands Today on Friday. I was only mentioning the other week that they'd had the same line up for ever and now this. Maybe this is my special power? I don't make a habit of musing on UB40 I must point out...

I like the line when he was interviewed saying how he was the main songwriter in the band. To be fair to him, there have been, shall we say, one or two covers in there...

is destined to be a critical success. Well with Q anyway.
5 ***** I think.

had an interesting one.Ron Blair on Bass from 1975 to 1982 replaced by Howie Epstein and back again full time after Howie's death in 2003.

Is leaving after their tour of New Zealand, Australia & one date in...Uganda. No wonder he's cheesed off with his management.

Mick Hucknall recently 'left' Simply Red didn't he ?

... for the steepest curve in creative output. One great record followed by 29 years of unremitting terribleness.

Having said that, I'll never forget travelling around south east Asia around 1990. UB40 were lterally the biggest thing almost everywhere I went. It went UB40, Marley, Michael Jackson in the that order.

unless one of them has thrown a moody in recent months, the best rock band ever to come out of the Netherlands, Golden Earring, have been going since Adam's Dad was a lad, gaining and the losing a keyboard player in the 70's but otherwise, I believe, unchanged.

Listening to the pod on Sunday a random track came up from their "The Devil Made Me Do It" retrospective covering their 35 year history. Released in 2000, which now makes 42/3 years.....not bad going. A strange Merseybeat type track that quite threw me!!!

I quite liked "Rat In The Kitchen". You never hear it on the radio anymore, this is a disgrace.

Have had the same lineup for years, haven't they? They're now sonic middle aged

the old Zed Zed Bottom have been pretty stable for decades, just one drummer change IIRC