After My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way is learning to let go — latimes.com

In the 12 years he spent as frontman of My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way seemed never to meet a concept he didn't like — or one he thought was too macabre. Consider the music video for the theatrical emo band's 2005 single "Helena," in which mourners at a funeral suddenly break into a Busby Berkeley-style dance number. And take the group's 2006 album "The Black Parade," a platinum-selling rock opera (complete with cameo by Liza Minnelli) about a dying cancer patient.

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