Judge skoolin' me in some music history: Alexander O'Neal was supposed to be the frontman of The Time, but Morris Day ended up getting the gig. Live'n'learn.
More history: the songs on Janet Jackson's Control LP were orig written by Jam & Lewis for a solo project by the lead singer of Atlantic Starr -- and she walked away from the album because she didn't think the songs were good enough! And Janet stepped in and the rest, as they say...