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Bad finger
General information
Genre (s) Soft Rock , pop rock , power pop
founding 1966 as The Iveys,
1969 as Badfinger
resolution 1983
Founding members
Pete Ham (†)
Vocals, bass
Tom Evans (†)
guitar
Ron Griffiths
Mike Gibbins (†)
Last occupation
Vocals, bass
Tom Evans (†)
Vocals, guitar
Joey Molland
Drums
Peter Clarke
Tony Kaye

Badfinger was a British rock band .

Band history

Under the name The Iveys, the group was founded in 1966 by Tom Evans, Mike Gibbins, Pete Ham and Ron Griffiths. They initially performed as the backing band of David Garrick until they sent demo tapes to Apple Records and were signed by Paul McCartney as Iveys. In 1968 the first single Maybe Tomorrow was released , which did not attract much attention. Griffiths got out soon after. Joey Molland came for him. In 1969 the band first appeared as Badfinger. In 1970 the McCartney composition Come and Get It came to number 4 in the British charts.

They were wrongly called caricatures of the Beatles and were particularly successful in the USA . In 1971 the hit single No Matter What came out. Badfinger appeared on albums by George Harrison and John Lennon , and the group also performed in the Bangladesh concert . The following single day after day was also successful, Baby Blue not so much. Her song Without You became a worldwide hit in the cover version by Harry Nilsson , later also for Mariah Carey .

In 1973 Badfinger moved to Warner Brothers . Apple torpedoed their first album for Warner Brothers by releasing Ace in December 1973 . Both Badfinger and Wish You Were Here (both 1974) could not build on their earlier successes. A short time later, Molland left the band. On April 23, 1975, Pete Ham hanged himself in his garage after he had briefly left Badfinger. For years the band had struggled in vain for more influence with their managers and the record companies, but was only systematically exploited (among other things, the album Badfinger was taken off the market after financial irregularities in the accounting). The sensitive Ham chose suicide. His last work with Badfinger was the album Head First . It remained unpublished and could only be made available to fans in 2000.

Molland and Evans hired Peter Clarke and Tony Kaye (Ex- Yes ) for a Badfingers reunion in 1978 . The 1979 album Airwaves , however, had little success. 1981 came out with Say No More Badfingers last album. On November 19, 1983, Tom Evans followed Ham's example and hanged himself. He had long fought unsuccessfully in court to get a share of the income from his songs - especially Without You , which he had written with Pete Ham. The money had disappeared somewhere with the record companies and managers involved.

Mike Gibbins died in his sleep in his Florida home on the morning of October 4, 2005, aged 56.

Trivia

The song Baby Blue , released in 1971, was used in the final scene of the hit series Breaking Bad . Due to the popularity of the series, sales of the digital version and the number of online streams rose sharply for a short time.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1970 Magic Christian Music - - - - US55 (17 weeks)
US
First published: January 1970
No dice - - - - US28 (15 weeks)
US
First published: November 1970
1971 Straight up - - - - US31 (32 weeks)
US
First published: December 1971
1973 Ass - - - - US122 (8 weeks)
US
First published: November 1973
1974 Bad finger - - - - US161 (5 weeks)
US
First published: February 1974
Wish You Were Here - - - - US148 (6 weeks)
US
First published: November 1974
1979 Airwaves - - - - US125 (8 weeks)
US
First published: March 1979
1981 Say no more - - - - US155 (6 weeks)
US
First published: January 1981

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

more publishments

  • 1969: Maybe Tomorrow (as The Iveys)
  • 1990: Day After Day: Live
  • 1997: BBC in Concert 1972-3
  • 2000: Head First
  • 2013: Timeless… The Musical Legacy

Singles

year Title
album
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1968 Maybe Tomorrow
Maybe Tomorrow
- - - - US67 (6 weeks)
US
First published: November 1968
(as The Iveys)
1969 Come and Get It
Magic Christian Music
DE34 (2 weeks)
DE
- - UK4 (11 weeks)
UK
US7 (15 weeks)
US
First published: December 1969
1970 No Matter What
No Dice
DE32 (4 weeks)
DE
- - UK5 (12 weeks)
UK
US8 (12 weeks)
US
First published: November 1970
1971 Day After Day
Straight Up
DE25 (7 weeks)
DE
- - UK10 (11 weeks)
UK
US4th
gold
gold

(14 weeks)US
First published: November 1971
1972 Baby Blue
Straight Up
DE30 (3 weeks)
DE
- - UK73 (1 week)
UK
US14 (10 weeks)
US
First published: March 1972
1979 Love Is Gonna Come at Last
Airwaves
- - - - US69 (4 weeks)
US
First published: March 1979
1981 Hold on,
say no more
- - - - US56 (8 weeks)
US
First published: January 1981

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

book

  • Dan Matovina: Without You: The tragic Story of Badfinger
  • Ingeborg Schober : Pop tragedies: the most spectacular cases from the Beach Boys to Nirvana . Ueberreuter, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-8000-7004-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/why-breaking-bad-chose-badfingers-baby-blue-20131001
  2. a b Chart sources: DE UK US1 US2
  3. a b Austeichierungen: US