Much was made of the fact that Axl Rose waited 17-plus years between proper Guns N’ Roses albums. Is that a record? Hardly.
- Club diva Grace Jones once sat out for 19 years between records. The Who didn’t release a record for 22 years.
- Yusef/Cat Stevens found religion and stayed away from making music for 28 years.
- The New York Dolls waited 32 years between albums.
- Vashti Bunyan released a record called Just Another Diamond Day. Vashti didn’t record a follow-up until something called Lookingafterling in 2005, a gap of 35 years.
- The MC5: an interval of 53 years.
- Dean Glitter, 57 years between Ghost Ballads in 1957 and Old Folkies Never Die in 2014.
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