The show must go on: when bands replace their dead stars

You'd think the death of a band's figurehead might spell the end, but for Big Country and Thin Lizzy, finding a stand-in seemed the best way to honour their fallen leadersIt was October 2000, and Big Country were preparing for another gig. They had been one of the biggest British bands of the 1980s, attracting a particularly ardent fanbase with their distinctively Celtic take on rock and their everyman image – at one point they were serious rivals to U2. But by the end of the next decade, ...

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