BADFINGER - 1974 - FIRST RELEASE ON WARNER BROTHERS RECORDS - CUT-OUT - BS-2762
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PURCHASED BRAND NEW and STORED IN A PLASTIC BAG since purchased. Thsi has a small CUT-CORNER on the bottom left (see pictures). Everything else looks great. No wear, nice corners, edges and spline. Front top right corner has a very small, slightly "crushed" corner (see picture). Lettering is close to center.
Inner paper sleeve is in nice shape with a small crease on the top right on the picture side (see picture). This is the Warner / Reprise Loss Leaders album offer sleeve. No rips, tears or splits.
Album vinyl has some slight "surface scuffing" visible and is in excellent shape. I have played this album probably ONLY ONCE. Labels look great with a spindle mark on Side Two label.
Side One: I Miss You - Shine On - Love is Easy - Song for a Lost Friend - Why Don't We Talk - Island
Side Two: Matted Spam - Where Do We Go From Here? - My Heart Goes Out - Lonely You - Give It Up - Andy Norris
Badfinger were a Welsh rock band formed in Swansea in 1961. Their best-known lineup consisted of Pete Ham (guitar), Mike Gibbins (drums), Tom Evans (bass), and Joey Molland (guitar). They are recognised for their influence on the 1970s power pop genre. It is estimated that the band sold 14 million records.
Initially known as the Iveys, the band renamed themselves Badfinger, after the working title for the Beatles' 1967 song "With a Little Help from My Friends" ("Bad Finger Boogie"). From 1968 to 1973, Badfinger recorded five albums for Apple Records and toured extensively, before they became embroiled in the chaos of Apple's dissolution.
Badfinger had four consecutive worldwide hits from 1970 to 1972: "Come and Get It" (written and produced by Paul McCartney, 1970), "No Matter What" (produced by Mal Evans, 1970), "Day After Day" (produced by George Harrison, 1971), and "Baby Blue" (produced by Todd Rundgren, 1972). Their song "Without You" (1970) has been recorded many times, and became a UK and US number-one hit for Harry Nilsson in 1972 and a UK number-one for Mariah Carey in 1994. In 1972, "Without You" saw co-writers Ham and Evans receive the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically from the Songwriters Guild of Great Britain.
After Apple Records folded in 1973, Badfinger struggled with a host of legal, managerial, and financial problems mostly due to their fraudulent manager Stan Polley, leading to Ham's suicide in 1975. The surviving members struggled to rebuild their personal and professional lives against a backdrop of lawsuits which tied up the songwriters' royalty payments for years. Their subsequent albums floundered, as Molland and Evans alternated between co-operation and conflict in their attempts to revive and capitalise on the Badfinger legacy. Evans died by suicide in 1983 and Gibbins died from a brain aneurysm in 2005, leaving Molland as the classic line-up's only surviving member. Molland continued to tour under the name "Joey Molland's Badfinger" until his own death in 2025
Because the Iveys' Maybe Tomorrow album had been released in only a few markets, the band's three songs from The Magic Christian soundtrack album were combined with other, older Iveys tracks (including both of the Iveys' singles and five other songs from Maybe Tomorrow) and then released as Badfinger's first album Magic Christian Music (1970). The album peaked at #55 on the Billboard album chart in the US. In addition, Derek Taylor commissioned Les Smithers to photograph the band in March 1970. His photograph has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery.Only six weeks after the Ass sessions had been completed, Badfinger re-entered the studio to begin recording material for its first Warner Bros. 1974 release, Badfinger (the intended title, For Love or Money, was omitted from the album pressings). The album was produced by Thomas, even though the songs were being written in the studio as they recorded. From my personal collection.
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