re: "Two career" bands/artists

Good calls with Genesis and Ozzy. I guess technically Ozzy doesn't meet the criteria b/c he went solo, but he was so much at rock bottom, he surely obliterated everyone's expectations.

How about Kiss? They were riding a wave in the 70s, then lost two original members, saw their album sales tank, and the label was about to pull the plug on them...then they pull another gimmick out of their asses by unmasking, and the move yielded a half-dozen more gold (and sometimes platinum) albums added to the catalog...