I'm just not sure how that stacks up against the key member of Queen being dead for decades. I don't think that's why people still play Queen but not really U2. The sad thing is I don't even dislike early 90s and earlier U2, I actually kind of liked their deal, it just seems a bit passe.
I mean, not Simply Red levels of passe, to be fair. Until a garden party at a neighbours a few years back, I was wondering if I was the only person who remembered them (and hoping it was so because ugh!). Sadly though, this garden party I dunno how they managed this but they basically played the most awful MoR forgettable/forgotten junk from the very late 1970s through the mid-1990s. Not a single banger. Not a single genuinely good song - even when they were playing artists who have some good tunes, they seemed to be picking most astoundingly terrible stuff. It was incredible. If I hadn't met them and known them to be both humourless and in their 50s I'd have thought it was a put-on.
Oh my god I've watched a bit of Um, Actually (as you can imagine), but I haven't seen any of those yet, I'll have to keep a look out.