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The Popdose Guide to Badfinger

Started by popdose · 4 months ago

Few bands in the history of rock n’ roll have been simultaneously as lucky and doomed as Badfinger. Lucky because they were not only one of the wildly eclectic assortment of artists the Beatles signed to their Apple Records label in 1968, but also because they had the talent and the so ... Continue reading »

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  • David Ragland

    4 months ago

    Thanks for this. I've had No Dice for years, but had never heard their other album cuts.
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  • drcastrato

    4 months ago

    Nice guide! Not sure if you are aware, but the links for the following songs were not working when I tried them:
    think about the good times
    sometimes
    take it all
    hold on
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  • jefito

    4 months ago

    All better now!
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  • drcastrato

    4 months ago

    thanks!
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  • luffy66

    4 months ago

    Great Article! Badfinger should have been way bigger than they were. They had such a tragic history.
    As a side note, Joey Molland is still touring Under the name "Badfinger featuring Joey Molland" they are out on the road again as part of "Hippyfest" making the round at at an ampetheather near you. I saw it last year and they were pretty good.
    Day after day, is one of those songs that I never get sick of whenever I hear it.
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  • Joe

    4 months ago

    Copper Records released a pretty good Badfinger tribute album called, of course, "Come And Get It", featuring Aimee Mann, Al Kooper, Brad Jones, The Loud Family, and Cotton Mather among others. it's availabel from Amazon, and has songs from throughout the band's career.
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  • kshane

    4 months ago

    Great job for a wonderful band with a terribly sad story.
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  • CarlosRamirez

    4 months ago

    "Lonely You" should have been a HUGE hit! I think it still can if someone contemporary covered it.
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  • Jeff

    4 months ago

    I was only 13 at the time, but I always thought "Rock of All Ages" -- the B side on the "Come and Get It" 45 -- was the better song. As noted above, it's held up pretty well.
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  • Winston O'Boogie

    4 months ago

    Badfinger was the blueprint on how to get TOTALLY screwed and how vicious the record business REALLY is. A person(who shall remain nameless) who is still alive and in Florida should burn in Hell for what he did to this band.....
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  • no one important

    4 months ago

    Joey Molland does a great job on the Badfinger stuff when he tours. I've seen him several times. He puts on a great show and is very accessible to the fans afterwards. He's also very meticulous about crediting songwriters on stage. This band has a very fractious hardcore following with many die-hard fans really hating Matovina's book and others thinking Matovina did a great job and only has the band's legacy in mind. I think your article here is very good and (with the exception of calling Kathie the Yoko of the story - after all Kathie may have pushed, but she WAS pushing against S.P. - the evil manager, a fact which ought to redeem her in my mind) even-handed.
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  • lordy

    4 months ago

    Nice rundown of the band for the novice. Thank you. That book by Matovina is phenomenal, even-handed and likely sourced for this article. Any hate toward Matovina always comes from Joey and Kathie Molland - and they always say they never read the book - and Molland's tight buddies who are heavily abusive. Matovina is a class act. He's helped get a lot of Badfinger projects off the ground. Just check it out.
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  • no one important

    4 months ago

    There's all kinds of bad feeling flinging both ways as far as I can tell. I bought both versions of Matovina's book. I read them. I thought they were informative AND biased against the Mollands. I think Dan's book was the start of a lot of ill will. I'm not saying he INTENDED it to be that way. But a lot of arguing and stuff started when the book came out. And, please be careful, I didn't say anyone hated Dan, I said they hated his book. There's a big difference there.
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  • no one important

    4 months ago

    Oh yeah- before I forget, I was also very careful to say that a lot of people thought the book was great. So please, let's not export the squabbling to this site too.
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  • abbey2

    3 months ago

    Not squabbling. You made a point the book was biased - no, the friends of the Mollands are biased. Obvious from the supporting comments of the participants of the book and lack of any proof of anything wrong in the book in ten years. I buy it. The Molland's attitude proves what it portrays. They hassled the crap out of the other members. Check out the Gibbins interview on the web. It is amazing and scathing toward them. Matovina obviously went out of his way to be fair.
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  • abbey2

    3 months ago

    There;s no way this book comes off biased, I've followed the situation for years. A few friends of the Molands who are often vile when presssed and never have one fact to back anything. The book turned me into a huge fan and it has never had one thing disproven that I've seen. Joey is a great writer and decent guitarist, but he and his wife's inflammatory rhetoric never amounted to a hill of beans. It's a great band and a shame she got involved. The book is amazing. Read the reviews from the people involved on the book's website.
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  • Mike K

    4 months ago

    Great overview, MIke. I particularly appreciate the generous mltimedia links.

    That TV host in Milwaukee seems like he could have been the model for Krusty The Klown! It's worth noting that whatever embarrassment they may have felt they turned in a massive performance that night.
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