Badfinger was a band signed to the Beatles' Apple Records label who had a number of hits in the early 1970's....
This from Wikipedia:
Badfinger was a rock/pop band formed in Swansea, Wales in the early 1960s and is one of the earliest representatives of the power pop genre.
During the early 1970s the band was touted as the heir apparent to The Beatles, partly because of their close working relationship with the 'Fab Four' but also because of their similar sound. However, it was the meteoric rise and harrowing demise of Badfinger that cemented their name in rock history journals. Although poised to make a significant impact on the music scene of the 1970s, starting it out with four hit singles and a number-one Billboard composition, Badfinger became victim to the worst elements of the music industry; resulting in bankruptcy and two suicides.
The story is far more disturbing than that, but they left behind several albums of very good tunes....bandleader Pete Ham was an excellent songwriter, and penned the lion's share of their well-known songs.
Their first few albums are considered as classics of their genre, but some of their later work shows a band that was ready to flower into a much bigger arena artistically....such a shame that mis-management was to ultimately shatter the group.
