Frontmen

Ozzy Osbourne is renowned as one of the wildest and craziest frontmen of all time.

The story of how Bruce battled cancer, performed in Sarajevo and was an international fencer.

As part of Aerosmith, Steve Tyler was one of the most iconic, bombastic, charismatic frontmen. He saw major chart success with hits like “Dream On,” “Walk This Way,” and “Love in an Elevator”. They sold 70 million more albums than any other heavy rock band in US history. But despite phenomenal success, time and time again his career nose-dived into a death spiral with drug and alcohol addiction.

One of the most famous, flamboyant, wild and charismatic frontmen in the world David Lee Roth is unlike most lead singers. The frontman of Van Halen is the same person both on and off stage and craves attention and adulation at all times. Growing up the boy from rural Indiana was far from a typical farm-boy and turned into a ferociously bright teenager.

For almost 40 years Jon Bon Jovi has fronted one of the world’s biggest rock bands, Bon Jovi. With hits like Livin’ On A Prayer and Bad Medicine their album sales topped 130 million. Jon Bon Jovi is equally successful as a solo artist and Hollywood actor. But while most frontmen are by nature notoriously wild, and full of excess, Jon Bon Jovi is a focussed and a highly successful businessman.

A band is almost always defined by its frontman and normally there is only one of them – ego, talent & chemistry demand it. But Kiss is different. They have two frontmen: Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley who somehow shared the limelight, and gave us a spectacle like no other - fire bombs, smoking guitars and spitting blood were all part of the act.