Joey Molland

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Joseph Charles "Joey" Molland (born June 21, 1947 in Liverpool , England ) is a British rock musician who was best known as the singer and guitarist of Badfinger .

Life

At the age of five or six, Molland began to work his way out of chords on the piano and play them. When he first heard Elvis Presley's version of the rock 'n' roll classic Blue Suede Shoes at the age of eleven , he took his brother's guitar and began to play the piece.

As a teenager he played in his first band called The Assassins. After a few months, the band split again and The Profiles followed suit. During this time he met Pete Wiggins, through whom he finally got to perform live for the first time in a Liverpool pub. With the Profiles he played Chuck Berry songs there for about seven months and earned his money that way.

After this band split up, he joined the masterminds who recorded a Bob Dylan song with Andrew Loog Oldham in 1965 . After the masterminds came The Merseybeats , The Fruit Eating Bears, The Cryings Shames and Gary Walker & the Rain, until he finally met the Iveys in 1968, who had just signed to Apple Records . After they were renamed Badfinger and Ron Griffiths left , Molland joined the band in 1969. He can be heard for the first time on the 1970 album No Dice .

In November 1974 he left Badfinger and joined with Mark Clarke , the former bassist of Colosseum and Uriah Heep , drummer Jerry Shirley , formerly at Humble Pie had played, and Peter Wood , the former keyboardist for The Sutherland Brothers to the Supergroup Natural Gas together. The band released only one album, produced by Felix Pappalardi , called Natural Gas, in 1976, although there have been two more line-up changes. 1979 Molland and Tom Evans reported back as Badfinger and released the albums Airwaves (1979) and Say No More (1981). In 1983 Molland released his first solo album After the Pearl . After that, Molland remained silent for a long time until he returned with the album Pilgrim in 1992. In 1999 the album Battle was released , on which various demos from 1972 to 1999 can be heard. Another solo album by Molland was released in 2001: This Way Up and, in 2013, Return to Memphis.

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