When your in the music business long enough that you feel comfortable enough to ask for a pre gig rider that specifies what colour your ashtray needs to be, this can lead to some interesting ego driven recordings. Be it that you spend too much time and money making sure all the notes are in the right place, get in a hot shot producer to paper over the cracks of substandard material or just take too many drugs for the creative process to function properly, we take a look at records that can only be described as having Jumped the Shark.
- My Destiny – The Byrds
- Down The Dolce Vita – Peter Gabriel
- Baby I Love You – The Ramones
- Velcro Fly – ZZ Top
- Def Leppard – Armageddon It
- Sunshine & Love – The Happy Mondays
- Still Life – Suede
- I Need Your Love – Boston
- D’You Know What I Mean – Oasis
- Knockers – The Darkness
- Chinese Democracy – Guns ‘n’ Roses
- Pretty Vegas – INXS
- C’Lebrity – Queen & Paul Rodgers
- Hostage of Love – Razorlight
- Whatcha Say – Jason Drulo