Editing Bread (band) (section)

===Following the break-up===
In 1978, Gates enjoyed success as a solo artist with the hit singles "Goodbye Girl" (#15; from the movie ''[[The Goodbye Girl]]'') and "[[Took the Last Train]]" (#30). He then continued to tour with Botts and Knechtel as "David Gates & Bread", making TV appearances, including a guest shot on ''[[The Hardy Boys Mysteries]]'' which aired in November 1978. The group's 1978 touring line-up once again included Dean Parks for their June tour of the UK and Europe. By their fall dates back in the US, Parks had left and the stage lineup had expanded to include [[Warren Ham]] (ex-[[Bloodrock]]; woodwinds, keyboards, backing vocals), Bill Ham (guitars) and [[David Miner (musician)|David Miner]] (bass). This led to a legal dispute with Griffin over the use of the band's name, of which Griffin was co-owner. In the dispute, Griffin again complained that Gates' songs were given preference as singles over his. The resulting litigation, which resulted in the Bread name being retired altogether by late 1978, was not settled until 1984.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

After leaving Bread in 1971, Royer stuck mostly to songwriting (still teaming up with Griffin on occasion). As with Griffin, he eventually kicked his drug problems and his success was mostly in writing for artists in the [[country music]] field in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1994, Royer, Griffin and Knechtel re-united under the name "Toast". Knechtel had continued to be an in-demand session player, backing up such artists as [[Elvis Costello]]. In September 1994, after being out of the spotlight for thirteen years, Gates released a new solo album, ''Love Is Always Seventeen''.

In 1990, Griffin founded the [[country music]] supergroup [[Black Tie (band)|Black Tie]] with [[Billy Swan]] and former [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]] member [[Randy Meisner]]. After this entity broke up, he recorded two albums as a member of another country music group, [[The Remingtons]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1495786/jimmy-griffin-of-bread-and-the-remingtons-dead-at-61.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115060713/http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1495786/jimmy-griffin-of-bread-and-the-remingtons-dead-at-61.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 15, 2014 |title=Jimmy Griffin, of Bread and the Remingtons, Dead at 61 |publisher=[[CMT (American TV channel)|CMT]]|access-date=April 13, 2015}}</ref>