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Niall Doherty

Watch ten rock stars from the 90s in their earlier bands

90s stars in a former guise.

As the saying that I am about to make up goes, behind every great band is usually a rubbish one. This lesser, pretty cack version of themselves is where the rock gods you have come to know and love cut their teeth. It’s what made them, where the steel was forged as they glanced upon another audience consisting solely of a lone soundman with headphones on eating a sandwich and said to themselves, ‘I’m not giving up, I’m sticking with this, I’m going to be a bloody rock star, do you hear me Trevor The Soundman?!”, or something like that. Sometimes they weren't not so rubbish, it just didn't work out, the stars had not yet aligned for them. But sometimes they were. Sometimes they were really bad Here are ten earlier, less successful efforts from artists who went on to become 90s rock superstars.

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