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Badfinger is tagged as: classic rock, power pop, rock, 70s, pop

Badfinger was a rock/pop (or “power pop”) band that orginated in mid-60s pop bands around Swansea, Wales. Adopting the name Badfinger in 1969, the band was touted as the ‘heir apparent’ to The Beatles, in part because of their close working relationship with the “Fab Four.” Badfinger’s meteoric rise and demise (marked by the suicides of founder-member and leader Peter Ham on 24 April 1975, and later of band-member Tom Evans on November 19, 1983) remains a cautionary tale for the rock music industry. They are probably best-remembered for the Ham/Evans-penned Badfinger song, “Without You”, which became an international hit for Harry Nilsson in 1971, and later a hit for Mariah Carey in 1994.
Badfinger oiginated with guitarist/keyboardist Pete Ham (27 April 1947 – 24 April 1975) and a group called The Panthers. Ham, Ron Griffiths (bass guitar) (b. October 2, 1946) and David ‘Dai’ Jenkins (guitar) went on to form The Iveys, named after a street in Swansea, Wales (and a pun on influential British Invasion group, The Hollies). By 1965, Mike Gibbins (March 12, 1949 - October 4, 2005) had joined as the drummer, and the band began playing locally with such groups as the Spencer Davis Group, The Who, The Moody Blues and...
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Top 10 Badfinger Songs
Come And Get It
No Matter What
Day After Day
Baby Blue
Without You
Just A Chance
Lonely You
Midnight Caller
Know One Knows
I Miss You
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Top 10 Badfinger Albums
The Very Best of Badfinger
The Best Of Badfinger Volume I
No Matter What You are
No Dice
Straight Up
Badfinger
Magic Christian Music
Wish You Were Here
The Best of Badfinger
Say No More
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