The music industry has been rocked by the news of Oasis’s reunion, especially because Noel Gallagher has been adamant for the past 15 years that it will never happen. However, is anyone really supposed to be that shocked? Even though Liam and Noel Gallagher may not be very fond of one another, a reunion tour might bring in between $300 and $500 million. That will be very helpful to Noel following his expensive divorce from wife Sara MacDonald.
They’re also not the first rock group to get back together after years of animosity. Hell Freezes Over was even the moniker given to the Eagles’ 1994 reunion tour. And for Guns N’ Roses, Fleetwood Mac, Kiss, Mötley Crüe, Smashing Pumpkins, Pavement, Pixies, the Fugees, Bauhaus Rage Against The Machine, and a host of other bands that seem to like money more than they do each other have been sent to hell since then. While some of these reunions ended after a few months, others are still going strong now.
However, a few well-known performers are still steadfastly unemployed. Here are 17 of them along with our 100% illogical probability that they will get back together in the future.
Pink Floyd
Reason for Breakup: The band’s relationship reached an all-time low during the 1980–1981 Wall tour, but following Roger Waters’ departure in the early 1980s, David Gilmour, Richard Wright, and Nick Mason became a cohesive unit. They also performed in numerous huge stadiums, but David Gilmour had had enough by the time the Division Bell tour concluded in 1994. After a lengthy series of performances in London’s Earls Court in October 1994, the tour came to an end, and they discreetly announced an extended break.
Last Performance: In the summer of 2005, Live 8 featured a four-song concert by the legendary lineup of Gilmour, Wright, Mason, and Waters. Richard Wright passed away from cancer three years later, permanently preventing a full reunion. When David Gilmour and Roger Waters performed “Comfortably Numb” at London’s 02 Arena in May 2011, Mason—who was playing the tambourine—joined Gilmour onstage for “Outside the Wall.” In 2014, David Gilmour and Nick Mason collaborated in the studio to finalize a few unfinished Richard Wright compositions for the mostly instrumental album The Endless River; however, no live performance was included to supplement the record.
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The 25 Most Important Creators of 2024: The Chances of a Reunion The period of peace between Pink Floyd that resulted in several brief reunions between 2005 and 2011 has come to an end. A few years ago, they called a band meeting in an attempt to work things out, but all that happened was public hostility and further animosity. Simple things like a box set of Animals turned into a year-long civil war between Gilmour and Waters. And when Floyd’s longtime lyricist and wife, Polly Samson, attacked Waters on Twitter in 2023, things really got out of control. She wrote, “To the core of your rotten being, Roger Waters is antisemitic.” Additionally, a Putin supporter who engages in dishonesty, theft, hypocrisy, evading taxes, lip-synching, misogyny, jealousy, and megalomania. I’m tired of your crap. Along with the tweet, David Gilmour added, “Every word demonstrably true.” Pink Floyd was definitely gone after that tweet, if they weren’t already. We calculated a 1% chance of a reunion.
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