14 Petty Reasons Your Favorite Bands Broke Up
![14 Petty Reasons Your Favorite Bands Broke Up](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/0/777840_320x180.jpg)
You and these other hooligans got bound together with one common dream: to make it big in the music industry. You play together, travel together, eat together, grow together both in age and in your craft. You become something more than just your individual selves. You become a band. Not just any band, but a touring band. A touring band whose music has touched so many lives. You made an impact. You all made it. Together you've succeeded. The hard work, the sweat, the sleepless nights, all of the sacrifices paid off.
Then you break up. Why? Why did it all get thrown away? Was it because you all collectively created all that you could together? Was it because you all felt content and wanted other dreams to pursue away from one another? Or was it because your bandmate stomped on your birthday cake?
Many of your favorite bands broke up for very silly reasons. Here are a 14 examples:
![Oasis was plagued by sibling rivalry GRACKED.COM Liam Gallagher once beat up his brother, Noel, with a tambourine. Later, Noel quit a tour after Liam insulted his wife. The final straw came in 2009, after some stupid fight caused them to cancel a show. Noel took to the band's website, saying I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/8/777848.jpg)
![Rage Against the Machine lost it all to Limp Bizkit BEST CRACKED.COM After losing an MTV Award to Limp Bizkit in 2000, bassist Tim Commerford completely wigged out. In a move that Fred Durst called pretty phat, he climbed a prop palm tree, started a fight, and went to jail. Zach de la Rocha quit the band shortly thereafter.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/6/777846.jpg)
Source: Rolling Stone
![The Eagles made Randy Meisner too famous CRACKED.COM The singer/songwriter never wanted to be a frontman, but was thrust into the position by circumstance. The rest of the band started alienating him as a result of his newfound fame, which drove him to exhaustion.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/6/777856.jpg)
![Jeremy Spencer ditched Fleetwood Mac for a cult CRACKED.COM The guitarist allegedly disappeared just before a show one day, only to turn up 5 days later in the main compound of The Children of God.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/4/777854.jpg)
Source: CheatSheet
![The Violent Femmes sold their soul to Wendy's CRACKED.COM Singer Gordon Gano says he didn't write Blister in the Sun about masturbation, but that he can see where people could get that idea. In 2007, he licensed the song to Wendy's without consulting the rest of the band, who couldn't bear the thought of their wank anthem being used to hawk fish patties.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/4/777844.jpg)
Source: Consequence of Sound
![Lita Ford thought The Runaways were gay 6. 16 EUROPE OUR CRACKED.CO Ford says she temporarily quit the band in 1976 after noticing her bandmates always giggling about other girls, and concluding that: a) they were gay, and b) that scared and confused her.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/5/777855.jpg)
Source: Huffington Post
![The Pixies hired the world's coolest bassist CRACKED COM Bassist Kim Deal joined the band via a wanted ad that frontman Black Francis came to regret placing. Deal was such a good fit, even Kurt Cobain once said he wished she was allowed to write more songs for the Pixies. Her success stung Black SO much, he faxed a letter to the band to let them know they were through.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/3/777853.jpg)
Source: Time
Simon & Garfunkel
![Simon & Garfunkel couldn't cast aside their egos CRACKED.co The pair's enormous egos only became more inflated-- and fragile -- as they each tried to transition to film careers. Garfunkel didn't tell Simon when he was cast in 1971's Carnal Knowledge, fearing he'd quit the band when he found out. And he was right!](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/1/777851.jpg)
Source: Inside Hook
The Smiths
![The Smiths called it quits over a comedic COVER CRACKED.COM Morrissey threatened to get real mopey if the band wouldn't record a cover of the goofy song Work is a four-Letter Word. The band obliged, but guitarist Johnny Marr said that cover was what made him finally decide to quit the band.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/2/777852.jpg)
Source: FMS
![The Kinks broke up over birthday cake CRACKED.COM The last time Ray and Dave Davies saw each other was on Dave's 50th birthday. Ray threw his bro a birthday party, then made a speech about how wonderful he was, and abruptly stomped on Dave's cake.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/9/777849.jpg)
Source: Daily Mail
![The Wanted let reality TV beef creep into real life The WANTED Life. CRACKED.CO Their 2013 E! reality show, The Wanted Life, wound up blurring the lines between reality and reality. Producers had one dude's wife move into the band's house, which -- who could have seen this coming??- created an insurmountable rift between band members.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/0/777850.jpg)
Source: Mirror
![Refused couldn't defeat capitalism THE SHAPE OF PUNK TO COME A CHIMERICAL BOMBINATION IN 12 BURSTS CRACKED.COM When their album The Shape of Punk to Come: A Chimerical Bombination in 12 Bursts failed to immediately break the linear timeline that the modern ways of production has forced upon us, they threw in the towel. That proved to be premature, as the album went on to truly shape the future of the genre.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/7/777847.jpg)
Source: Burning Heart
![Cream was just too darn loud CRACKED.COM Drummer George Baker said the supergroup started equating volume with quality, but that playing loud had nothing to do with music. It ultimately led to multiple inner ear injuries, which caused the group to fizzle out.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/3/777843.jpg)
Source: Guitar Player
![Ed King's guitar strings snapped, right in the middle of Free Bird CRACKED.co Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant gave King holy hell after his strings broke on stage one night, causing King to quit the band.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/4/5/777845.jpg)