Joey Molland of Badfinger
Posted: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 5:44 pm
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Apple Records was founded by The Beatles, but they weren’t the only recording artists on the label. Billy Preston and James Taylor were signed by the Fab Four, but it was the British band Badfinger that was the most successful act on Apple besides The Beatles with the hit singles “Come & Get It,” “No Matter What,” “Day After Day” and “Baby Blue,” from 1969 to 1972.
Guitarist and Liverpool native Joey Molland joined Badfinger in 1969, along with original members (which were then known as The Iveys when they were formed in 1965) Mike Gibbons, Pete Ham and Tom Evans. Molland will perform the band’s biggest hits at Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach Thursday, April 17.
Molland, who recently released a solo album, “Return to Memphis,” said it's “quite phenomenal” that you can still hear those records on the radio decades later.
“The music lives on whether I'm doing it or not,” Molland said. “I don't know whether what I've done has contributed to that, but I like to think the records are good enough and that they've survived because of that.”
After the tragic deaths of three of the original members, Evans and Ham committed suicide and Gibbons died from a brain aneurism in 2005, Molland is keeping the band’s music alive, but that won’t happen in the recording studio.
“It’s one thing to do a concert, Joey Molland’s Badfinger, and play the songs, do it the best we can and try to give people a little bit of a Badfinger experience in terms of what they hear. But it's quite something to go into a studio and call yourself Badfinger and make a record under the name. It's a bit weird for me.”
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