Artist:Badfinger
Song:Day After Day
Album:The Best Of Badfinger
For a short period of time, Badfinger was touted as successors to The Beatles. A lot of this had to do with Badfinger being on Apple Records. They had some hits but things just didn't work out for them. The group started with Pete Ham (born Apr. 27, 1947 in Swansea, South Wales). In the early 60s, he started a group called The Iveys with bassist Ron Griffiths & guitarist Dai Jenkins. Drummer Mike Gibbins (born Mar. 12, 1949 in Swansea, South Wales) joined in 1965 and The Iveys started getting noticed. Jenkins left in 1967 and was replaced by Tom Evans (born June 5, 1947 in Liverpool). Ham & Evans became the main songwriters for the group. They auditioned for Apple in 1968 and Paul McCartney took a liking to them and they were signed. They had problems at first because of producer Mal Evans' inexperience. McCartney came to the rescue with a song called Come And Get It. The song did well but Griffiths left the group and was replaced by Joey Molland in 1969. The group name was changed to Badfinger. Things started going a lot better and the 1971 album Straight Up yielded their biggest hit ever in Day After Day. There were behind the scenes issues with producers Todd Rundgren & George Harrison but the album was successful. This comp has all their Apple hits. But things fell apart and Badfinger left Apple for Warner Bros. in 1973. The group also had financial problems due to a crooked manager. This resulted in Pete Ham hanging himself on Apr. 23, 1975. Evans & Molland tried to keep the group going but there was a lot of conflict and Evans hung himself on Nov. 19, 1983. Molland still leads a version of Badfinger today. Badfinger had talent and unrealized potential. Here's Badfinger performing Day After Day on the Kenny Rogers show in 1972.
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