Burning up the airwaves tonight on Solid Gold Jukebox....SMS requests for Canned Heat, Rare Earth, The Turtles, Elvis, Abba, Dylan, The Seekers, The Cowsills and more PLUS a triple play from one of the greatest, but tragically doomed, bands of the classic pop rock era, Badfinger...AND we uncover the real roots of rock & roll with 5 songs from the pre-1954 Bill Haley & his Comets period in the Extended 5 Play Special. If that isnt enough for you then watch out for `This Week in rock & Roll History` where we bare the truth behind the songs of Jefferson Airplane, The Beatles and The Guess Who. Here is some background to tonight`s Triple Play-Badfinger were a British rock band consisting originally of Pete Ham, Mike Gibbins, Tom Evans and Joey Molland. Originally called The Iveys they adopted the name Badfinger in 1969 when they were signed to The Beatles Apple Records. Apple Corps Neil Aspinall proposed the name Badfinge, in reference to Bad Finger Boogie; an early working title of Lennon–McCartneys With a Little Help from My Friends, as Lennon had hurt his forefinger on a piano by using only one finger Badfinger had four consecutive worldwide hits from 1970 to 1972: Come and Get It (written and produced by Paul McCartney), No Matter What, Day After Day, and Baby Blue. The Ham/Evans-penned Badfinger song Without You became a Billboard number one hit for Harry Nilsson and later a histrionic version by Mariah Carey topped the charts . In 1970, the band engaged American businessman Stan Polley to manage their commercial affairs. Over the next five years the band recorded several albums for Apple and toured extensively, but became embroiled in the chaos of Apple Records dissolution. They signed to Warner Bros but Polleys financial machinations resulted in a lawsuit by Warner Bros., over missing escrow account money. Warners consequent withdrawal from market of the 1974 album, Wish You Were Here (seven weeks after its release), cut off the bands income. Three days before his 28th birthday, on 24 April 1975, Pete Ham committed suicide by hanging himself, leaving a note that included damning comments about Polley. The next three years saw surviving members trying to rebuild their personal and professional lives against a backdrop of lawsuits. The albums Airwaves (1978) and Say No More (1981) floundered, as Molland and Evans see-sawed between cooperation and struggle in attempts to revive and capitalise on the Badfinger legacy. Having seen Hams body after Hams wife had called him, Evans reportedly never got over his friends suicide, and was quoted as saying in darker moments, I wanna be where he is” . On 19 November 1983, Evans also took his own life by hanging. Joey Molland struggled on with the band until the late `80s when it was effectively disbanded, although Molland continued to use the name from time to time. A sad end to one of the most talented pop rock bands of the early `70s youtube/watch?v=Xoke1wUwEXY
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 08:59:01 +0000
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