name a band that ****** you off because they got soft.

You can also say David Bowie.

Bowie gave us some of the best albums of all time in the 1970's. You got Ziggy Stardust, Station to Station, Heroes, Hunky Dory, and going into the 1980's he gives us Scary Monsters which showed he was still on top of his game, but then he comes out with the abomination of Let's Dance, and the ONLY reason people even like that song is Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitar solo. Take that solo out and the song is god awful, just like the album is. I also will dispute that China Girl was only a hit because of the solo in it too.

I still find it extremely odd he has a good guitar album in Scary Monsters, then when he has one of the greatest Blues guitar players to ever live on his next album, we get a crappy pop record that only has one good song on it (Cat People, SRV tore it up on that track)

After 1981, the only good thing Bowie did was jump start SRV's career.