Quem sabe me informar qual dos quatro componentes da banda é Tom Evans? Infelizmente ele e o Pete Ham, o vocalista, se suicidaram. Que pena. Essa música é maravilhosa.
A good manager is supposed to do everything for his clients. If he's ruthless, he should be ruthless in his client's favor. Stan Polley (and several others) did everything they could to scuttle Badfinger. It's a pity they couldn't find someone to stand for them, and not against them.
@tjrtherocksponge great bit of history there my friend. didnt know alot of that. All I know is that when I heard these songs back in middle school they had such a haunting uniqness about them that Ive never 4gotton!!
Just so heartbreaking. I just want to slap everyone at Apple for letting this disappear. And how about all of the rich pukes who have covered "Without You" and not given a thought to a huge music revival of Badfinger. They were the second coming. They were the next Beatles. And because of bad businessmen and bad dealings they lived in a house with no heat with their kids freezing. Lost, the two principals hanged themselves as mere kids.
Pete Ham’s sole heir, daughter Petera, now owns the Pete Ham copyrights, while Tom Evans' wife, Marianne, along with their son, Stephen, own the Tom Evans copyrights.
I remember finding out about you, every day my mind is all around you... looking out of my lonely room, day after day.... the soundtrack of my lost and dearest girl ever, so sad.... thanks Pete
yeh tom evans never got over petes suicide and also hung himself after saying he wanted to be with pete great song writers together and such a bloody shame
does anyone know how Pete is getting 2 notes out of the slide? is the high E string tuned so that it harmonizes with the second? i'm at a loss for this....
the smoothness of his playing hides the difficulty of what he's doing....
Não sou dessa geração infelizmente, descobri a banda em 2009 e me apaixonei. São ótimos, talvez sucessores dos Beatles. Afilhados de Harrison, Paul e Ringo sabemos que eram. Que pena que a história da banda não teve um final feliz.
He is the most underrated singer songwriter of all time. Pete Ham was more than just a musician, his lyrics are timeless, and his music can never be duplicated.:)
beatles left these guys to twist in the wind - 2 of them literally. Fuck george harrison for screwing these guys over. harrrison sitting in his swank mansion ripping off others music while Pete Ham is selling his guitar to support his pregnant wife! fuck the beatles. i hope they all rot in hell!!!!!!!
I was a preteen when this came out, and I don't recall the disk jocky ever mentioning the band. The song would come on while I read Lord of the Rings and it just melded into the story.
@lincoln2ish Yes I agree. I never met Pete Ham or Tom Evans, and depression is an illness that many of us don't understand. It would be easy to say they were quitters, but I'm not in a position to judge them.
a one hit wonder , actually two hits, this one and "no matter what." I've always liked 'em both. The group's name is relly easy to remember too ;). I wonder how they came up w/ it ?
@cco10399 : Obviously, didn't listen to the radio in the late 60s, early 70s. Badfinger was not a 2 hit wonder! Tom and Pete were excellent writers. They wrote WITHOUT YOU, which went to #1 and sold 800,000 copies! Mariah Carey covered it as well. It's one of her biggest selling hits ever! They had many hits and some of their songs were underrated. How can songs with a 1,500,000+views not be hits? Beatles handpicked them for their Apple label. McCartney wrote No Matter What FOR THEM!.
@cco10399 - Actually, 4 at least... Day By Day, No Matter What, Come and Get It (written by McCartney - check the PM demo out - it sounds almost the same as the Badfinger version as Paul had his hand thoroughly in it)
@cco10399 : The name Badfinger came about from The Beatles song "With A Little Help From My Friends". The working title of the song was called "Badfinger Boogie" before it was changed. I believe it might have been Paul or one of the other Beatles who suggested they change their band name from the Iveys to Badfinger, or perhaps the person who discovered them for Apple Records, Mal Evans (Beatles roadie).
I was around at the time and never gave this band the credit they deserved. I think they were seen as Bealtes wannabes, which of course is ridiculous. Pete Ham and Tom Evans were fantastic song writers and it is so sad they were lost to the world so early in their careers. We should celebrate what they have left us...Without You is one of the most beautiful love songs ever written.
suicide, though I would like to know what this song is really about, is it about a girlfriend, a wife that left him, a daughter what is it about, or the inspiration of the song surely someone can tell me.
the rift from 50- 53 remineds me of the ending of the neal diamond song america that is why I like this song so much since it took a long time for the song america to be played on the radio again after hearing it on the radio and then went for four years till I heard it on the olympics.
You know how long it's taken me to find this song. 19 years. When I was in Florida I would hear it all the time, I love it, and I'm so glad I finally found. Now I'm going to order the album. See it's never too late.....life is full of surprises.....
I've always liked BF. I read the backstory of how they were screwed by their manager and then fell into complete disarray. They had 4 Big Hits in a row & we're basically a breadth away from becoming a major act until despair drove Pete Ham to suicide.Its so sad.They wrote great songs... it's a shame that another act gets "screwed" by the industry for which they serve . I hope their manager got what he deserved the fuckin' asshole.,or cancer there of! forgive me, my prose.
these guys were as good as the beatles and backed by the beatles-cause they were so good--such a shame they got screwed over by management --they were great songwriters and musicians who deserved so much more.
George Harrison asked if he could play the slide on this recording and of course the group was happy to accommodate him. Leon Russell, whom everybody knows by now that he played the piano on this song, did so in one take. Amazing!
I dedicate this song in memory to my cat, Sarge. He would great me home from school near a busy road and I was so afraid he would get run over. My mother was moron putting the cat out. He was eventually run over. Sarge ran to greet me and followed me everywhere like a dog. Everyday, I hoped he wouldn't get hit.
@hedunlap no!! really??!!!!! i didn't know that!!!! i saw him live in 1971! and i always thought this band was pauls first band! where did i go wrong?? is todd rungren in there too? or did he just produce?? and who is this lead singer?? all these years, i thought it was paul mccartney singing this song!!!! aaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!
@Littlehuahua53 Badfinger takes me back to a Very Magical Time also! :) this is the music that inspired the phrase... "They just don't write them like that anymore!" Rock On Friends!!!
How could this song be possibly disliked??......it just shows those 13 bieber brained assholes couldn't tell what real music is from the piles of trash they play today.....
I would put this song up against many Beatles songs, not to compete, but to show these guys were as good in many ways, not ripoffs either. Pete Ham and Tom Evans were master songwriters, the likes of Lennon/McCartney. Ironically what they never got financially is being rectified through their music and I think that their legacy and popularity is being magnified as years go by.
@MsHatesHaters : It was Beatles roadie Mal Evans who discovered the group (as the Iveys) playing in a club, that he mentioned to the Beatles about this group, whom they ended up signing onto Apple Records.
@MrOwenw405 does pete ham sound like paul mccartney to you? because all these years, i thought i was listening to paul mccartney. i thought this was his band.
@MrOwenw405 Ham and Evans were great at songwriting no doubt, when you mentioned the Beatles, you forgot to mention Harrison's superb songwriting (He was every bit as good as Lennon and McCartney in my opinion). When it comes down to vocal range I'd side with the Beatles, and for instrumental ability the Beatles again. Songwriting is close but for me its the Beatles again because of Harrison, Lennon, and McCartney....
@MrOwenw405 Just a note. Paul McCartney got them signed with Apple and worked with them to help their career along. You can hear Paul in their songs through Pete.
I agree. You don't kill yourself because you have unbelievably great talent and are making smash hit records. The manager trouble could have easily been solved with an ass-wuppin' like we do it here down south. That SOB should have been made to account for every penny and forced to make restitution to their estates.
The number of suicides and the reasons proffered contravenes too many facts. Why would a guy about to go on vacation decide to end it all. I think the two band members were murdered. Problem is, forensics was too poor to investigate a case back then.
@lomertamahon1 Man, I never thought about that but I believe you really bring up a great point. The crooked manager they had that ripped them off was capable of anything!!
It's hard to describe just how good Badfinger's hits sounded on the radio to a 13 yr. old when these songs came out. As if the beatles continued on...R.I.P. Pete and Tom!
awesome band love love love these songs by badfinger that just pisses me off that they got taken like that di not know about what happened to the group will be missed, they were awesome,should be in inducted no matter what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
'Magnificent' does not begin to describe this soulful masterpiece! Pete Ham and Tom Evans may be gone but the indelible contribution they made to the world of music will live on and on and on....
Oh how good things don't last in this world! Magnificent does not begin to describe this soulful masterpiece. Pete Ham and Tom Evans may be gone but their indelible contribution to music will live on and and on and on....!!!
@Eligoliveira - Mike Gibbons (passed away in 2005) and played in Badfinger almost from the very beginning and except for a couple of years at the close of the 70s-beginning of the 80s, was always in the band.
What an awesome song this is! If Badfinger had continued to make music with this great line-up, one can only imagine how much more beautiful music the world would have had in it, by these great musicians! I also remember great memories of hearing this in mom's car as a kid! Those were the best times! Peace, Love, and Joy to all! BobbyK
Today's musicians should familiarize themselves with the tragic story of Badfinger...unfortunately very few of today's musicians know, or care to know, about this band and their cautionary tale. So incredibly sad, so incredibly sad.
I remember I kept the alarm for 6 am to listen to this song because the repeat program on BBC would come on at that time. The best song for 6 months after this was released. 1971 and 1972 were full of this.
Friends and I even wavered between Badfinger and the Beatles for a while. Stan Polley, their manager, made me hate all Americans for a while. I came out after a while but but I can never forgive him for two badfingers' death, the swine
Some say that the universe geomerty rules out back-in-time travelling. Yet jumping trough the future seems to be still possible. Now some masterpieces, like this one, drive me so easily down to my past, that even before my yz wide opened , those images, events, people, come all again so smoothly from within melody and harmony, with such a sense of being real - that I cannot find my heart into physics any longer.
This is a good song for those of us including myself who need to indulge in their pain for a while. Ever tell someone you have strong feelings for them only to find out they do not feel the same? Good song trust me, I just went through it.
Good comment. The way I hear this song is that it is desperate and sad, but optimistic too. I guess it's a matter of interpretation - but one of my all time favourites!
Makes you wonder why musicians today can't write an incredible song like this. It's been probably 20 years since we've heard a new original song that was truly great. (If I'm wrong, name one!) I think it's because too many great pop songs were pulled out of the air in the '60s-'70s. None left for today's artists, so instead they rely on visual posturing, attitude, and dance-- the cheap way out.
I have such wonderful memories of hearing this on my mom's radio as we were traveling in her car! I wish two angels could have been sent to prevent the two members who committed suicide! Badfinger was a very special and talented group! Peace and Love, BobbyK
I loved this song as a child, hearing it on the radio in my mom's car! How I wish an angel was sent to both members that committed suicide, so it would never have had to happen! Badfinger was definitely a very special and talented group! Love and Peace to all! Sincerely, BobbyK
This is my favorite song by Badffinger. The music from those gloriuous days of the 1960s, early 70s cannot be replicated. Although some of today's music is good, it can't compare to the 1950s, 60s, 70s.
I've always loved this song and to listen to Pete and Tom's vocals I can see why if you didn't know better, you might think they sounded like the Beatles..Just a sad, tragic story theirs and it's still a shame they're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because they at least deserve that much.
Where the hell is the piano in this video? There's obviously a piano track in the recording. And this "Chew" he remembers finding out about, who's that? Me thinks "Chew" is the invisible piano player...
ALLEN KLEIN fucked Badfinger
bigfolkie5418 3 days ago
Thanks very much. Bought back a lot of memories.
Mapesy00 1 week ago
ooh my poor heart.......................
irongomez13 1 week ago 2
Quem sabe me informar qual dos quatro componentes da banda é Tom Evans? Infelizmente ele e o Pete Ham, o vocalista, se suicidaram. Que pena. Essa música é maravilhosa.
Amando303 3 weeks ago
Love ya Badfinger...
donbrashsux 3 weeks ago
Amoooooooooooooooooooo !!!! Uma das melhores bandas britânicas !!!
thaissunset 1 month ago
just a great old pice of the past.. love it!
WiliamRandolfhHearst 1 month ago
Quem ouve uma pérola dessa e ter que ouvir Fiuk, Luan Santana, Restart, Wanessa Camargo e similares, é dose prá elefante.
Amando303 1 month ago
Awesome in every sense of the word - such a sad story and very tragic, long live the music as the group will now live on forever.......
daveukmills 2 months ago
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hotstuffandicecream 2 months ago 2
i founded this 7' single yesterday at my local flea market and its amazing!!
jg1988 3 months ago
Awe-some
stanibol 3 months ago
This song, more than any other, takes me back to 1972. I feel sorry for anyone too young to know a time like that.
70sRockin 3 months ago 8
@70sRockin younger is always better no matter what!
ddmrocks69 1 month ago
A good manager is supposed to do everything for his clients. If he's ruthless, he should be ruthless in his client's favor. Stan Polley (and several others) did everything they could to scuttle Badfinger. It's a pity they couldn't find someone to stand for them, and not against them.
cantamos100 3 months ago 2
@tjrtherocksponge great bit of history there my friend. didnt know alot of that. All I know is that when I heard these songs back in middle school they had such a haunting uniqness about them that Ive never 4gotton!!
SouthSideScotty47 3 months ago
Just so heartbreaking. I just want to slap everyone at Apple for letting this disappear. And how about all of the rich pukes who have covered "Without You" and not given a thought to a huge music revival of Badfinger. They were the second coming. They were the next Beatles. And because of bad businessmen and bad dealings they lived in a house with no heat with their kids freezing. Lost, the two principals hanged themselves as mere kids.
mcrosswade 3 months ago
How did the music disappear?
Look what passes for the same today; there is no comparison.
The trash today I wouldn't suffer a dog to endure.
Israeliteish 3 months ago 5
slide it all!
MrDacioss 3 months ago
ros stewart prestou grande homengagem ao cantar essa belíssima canção.
121212515151 3 months ago
Pete Ham’s sole heir, daughter Petera, now owns the Pete Ham copyrights, while Tom Evans' wife, Marianne, along with their son, Stephen, own the Tom Evans copyrights.
italvito 3 months ago 3
I remember finding out about you, every day my mind is all around you... looking out of my lonely room, day after day.... the soundtrack of my lost and dearest girl ever, so sad.... thanks Pete
ThomRadioheadYorke 3 months ago 2
@ThomRadioheadYorke ditto here ...
jrnyjrny 3 months ago
The drummer isn't Mike Gibbins! Who is?
joeycastanheira 3 months ago
Pete Ham and Tom Evans were so epic. It was so sad that they had to end there lives like that
RingoStarrMcGregor 3 months ago
The Beatles after the Beatles.
theskiesaboveus 3 months ago 3
ditto on the 'Perfection' ...
jrnyjrny 3 months ago
Hi, ich bin ein großer Fan von Badfinger,
ich mag diese Band. Sie wären eigentlich als Beatles Nachfolger gehandelt
worden. Lieder gab es die bekannten Unstimmigkeiten mit der Plattenfirma.
Das führte letztendlich zu den Selbstmorden von Ham und Evans.
Schade, ich denke, dass aus ihrer Feder sicher noch mehr Hits entstanden wären.
lanossi 4 months ago
Beautiful sound; flawless, classic 70s track
jpodunk60 4 months ago
yeh tom evans never got over petes suicide and also hung himself after saying he wanted to be with pete great song writers together and such a bloody shame
bombsta1973 4 months ago
JUST BEAUTIFUL, I must admit that I did not realize their talents and it took a few years to discover and Im glad that I did.
tailor7793 4 months ago
does anyone know how Pete is getting 2 notes out of the slide? is the high E string tuned so that it harmonizes with the second? i'm at a loss for this....
the smoothness of his playing hides the difficulty of what he's doing....
luekerider 4 months ago
Perfection.
bobgure 4 months ago
Incredible song! Soundtrack of my youth as well!
AudiophileTubes 4 months ago 2
I've always known this song, but never the band behind it. It pissed me off when I read about all the shit the went down. Just a damn shame.
matizzle32 4 months ago
Mike Gibbins is my Half Second Cousin! :D
GeekyGuy2000 4 months ago
and a very sad ending to this truly great band..
POINTBLANKaustralia 4 months ago
Não sou dessa geração infelizmente, descobri a banda em 2009 e me apaixonei. São ótimos, talvez sucessores dos Beatles. Afilhados de Harrison, Paul e Ringo sabemos que eram. Que pena que a história da banda não teve um final feliz.
evaniaLu 4 months ago
good stuff...great stuff.............damn
liberalsarescum 4 months ago
He is the most underrated singer songwriter of all time. Pete Ham was more than just a musician, his lyrics are timeless, and his music can never be duplicated.:)
371Musicman 4 months ago 29
@371Musicman Couldn't agree with you more. Word for word. Still tear up at the loss.
tezhowes 3 months ago
@lincoln2ish - He is.
Hto0h 4 months ago
This band was great. Quite the shame all that happened.
rorschach1488 4 months ago
Juntamente com The Hollies, Badfinger foram das melhores bandas dos anos 70
celsocordeiro22 5 months ago
@lincoln2ish George Harrison and Pete Ham both played lead on the original recording.
KeepAmericaFreedom 5 months ago
beatles left these guys to twist in the wind - 2 of them literally. Fuck george harrison for screwing these guys over. harrrison sitting in his swank mansion ripping off others music while Pete Ham is selling his guitar to support his pregnant wife! fuck the beatles. i hope they all rot in hell!!!!!!!
2hamboigahs 5 months ago 2
OMG Now I know why I love this song so much ....TODD RUNDGREN produced it!!!
catgirl6717 5 months ago
Pete Ham = epic. McCartney like voice, and Harrison like guitar skills.
Hearsticles 5 months ago
I was a preteen when this came out, and I don't recall the disk jocky ever mentioning the band. The song would come on while I read Lord of the Rings and it just melded into the story.
sherriffnoldie 5 months ago
Fantastic group !! may god bless badfinger pete ham rules the histoy of rock in the 70s. still listening n never will i 4get this group!!
badfinger5 5 months ago
That certainly is not Mike Gibbins.
rkodavey 5 months ago
VERY UNDER RATED GROUP
emt1605 5 months ago
@lincoln2ish Yes I agree. I never met Pete Ham or Tom Evans, and depression is an illness that many of us don't understand. It would be easy to say they were quitters, but I'm not in a position to judge them.
Inglese001 5 months ago
Wonderful group. People talk about Sid Barret, Peter Green and Paul Kossoff, but this group is the greatest tragedy in British rock history.
Inglese001 5 months ago 34
a one hit wonder , actually two hits, this one and "no matter what." I've always liked 'em both. The group's name is relly easy to remember too ;). I wonder how they came up w/ it ?
cco10399 6 months ago
@cco10399 : Obviously, didn't listen to the radio in the late 60s, early 70s. Badfinger was not a 2 hit wonder! Tom and Pete were excellent writers. They wrote WITHOUT YOU, which went to #1 and sold 800,000 copies! Mariah Carey covered it as well. It's one of her biggest selling hits ever! They had many hits and some of their songs were underrated. How can songs with a 1,500,000+views not be hits? Beatles handpicked them for their Apple label. McCartney wrote No Matter What FOR THEM!.
0nestrawberryblonde 5 months ago 2
@cco10399 - Actually, 4 at least... Day By Day, No Matter What, Come and Get It (written by McCartney - check the PM demo out - it sounds almost the same as the Badfinger version as Paul had his hand thoroughly in it)
Hto0h 4 months ago
@cco10399 - oh, and Baby Blue.... almost forgot.
Hto0h 4 months ago
@cco10399 : The name Badfinger came about from The Beatles song "With A Little Help From My Friends". The working title of the song was called "Badfinger Boogie" before it was changed. I believe it might have been Paul or one of the other Beatles who suggested they change their band name from the Iveys to Badfinger, or perhaps the person who discovered them for Apple Records, Mal Evans (Beatles roadie).
amb2745 4 months ago
I was around at the time and never gave this band the credit they deserved. I think they were seen as Bealtes wannabes, which of course is ridiculous. Pete Ham and Tom Evans were fantastic song writers and it is so sad they were lost to the world so early in their careers. We should celebrate what they have left us...Without You is one of the most beautiful love songs ever written.
CultureSchock 6 months ago
jeez what a great leadsinger/leadguitarist
kdt1599 6 months ago 2
suicide, though I would like to know what this song is really about, is it about a girlfriend, a wife that left him, a daughter what is it about, or the inspiration of the song surely someone can tell me.
the rift from 50- 53 remineds me of the ending of the neal diamond song america that is why I like this song so much since it took a long time for the song america to be played on the radio again after hearing it on the radio and then went for four years till I heard it on the olympics.
manga12 6 months ago
You know how long it's taken me to find this song. 19 years. When I was in Florida I would hear it all the time, I love it, and I'm so glad I finally found. Now I'm going to order the album. See it's never too late.....life is full of surprises.....
Benjilenway 6 months ago
I've always liked BF. I read the backstory of how they were screwed by their manager and then fell into complete disarray. They had 4 Big Hits in a row & we're basically a breadth away from becoming a major act until despair drove Pete Ham to suicide.Its so sad.They wrote great songs... it's a shame that another act gets "screwed" by the industry for which they serve . I hope their manager got what he deserved the fuckin' asshole.,or cancer there of! forgive me, my prose.
mrmantra69 6 months ago
What was the name of the their rip off manager who screwed them big time?
What ever became of him. Did he ever comment on the tradgedy he caused?
andrewr62 6 months ago
@andrewr62 Stan Polley was the manager that ripped them off.
whitford70 6 months ago
these guys were as good as the beatles and backed by the beatles-cause they were so good--such a shame they got screwed over by management --they were great songwriters and musicians who deserved so much more.
chabeworks 6 months ago 4
George Harrison asked if he could play the slide on this recording and of course the group was happy to accommodate him. Leon Russell, whom everybody knows by now that he played the piano on this song, did so in one take. Amazing!
reyuvsun 6 months ago
how goods this.....dont write them like this anymore
MegaStratmann 6 months ago
One of my top 5 favorite groups of all time. Great music.
rhartl325 7 months ago
so Classic rock....!! loves this!! ^^
hardgreenhorn 7 months ago
I dedicate this song in memory to my cat, Sarge. He would great me home from school near a busy road and I was so afraid he would get run over. My mother was moron putting the cat out. He was eventually run over. Sarge ran to greet me and followed me everywhere like a dog. Everyday, I hoped he wouldn't get hit.
susanbcork 7 months ago
2 x '65 SG Standard.
WOOT!
6StringPassion 7 months ago
rip pete and tom
LokiLasher 7 months ago
While opinions will always differ, would any deny this is at least, arguably, the best pop ballad EVER?
SirRoastalot 7 months ago
Thanks a lot for the post. I've been looking for the genuine version for so long.
lonelyneuron 7 months ago
Such a great group, such a sad story!!
man7tle 7 meses atrás 49
really....how i love all they...beautiful, nice, sugar, easy...
manjerioba 7 months ago
No Joey Molland on drums?!
WilburyVision 7 months ago
watch sidiropoylos version.. is good too
panosstavrianos 7 months ago
Swansea's best. Pete Ham.
yippitydodah 7 months ago 3
Great and beautiful song with fantastic blending of voices!!!
deejay2023jvr 7 months ago 7
A beautiful song with fantastic voices!!!
deejay2023jvr 7 months ago
I hear a piano playing but where is it and who is playing it?
Cindybug57 7 months ago
@Cindybug57 Leon Russell is on the piano.
hedunlap 7 months ago
@hedunlap no!! really??!!!!! i didn't know that!!!! i saw him live in 1971! and i always thought this band was pauls first band! where did i go wrong?? is todd rungren in there too? or did he just produce?? and who is this lead singer?? all these years, i thought it was paul mccartney singing this song!!!! aaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!
m1kewithaone 7 months ago
@hedunlap Just had to say a huge YES since you mentioned Leon! One of my all time HEROES! ♥
nc2ohio 7 months ago
don't see the keyboard player (???)
Cindybug57 7 months ago
Awesome Group. Such a tragedy
zeppelin76regal 7 months ago 4
Pete Ham turned 23 when I was born; It's tragic the way he died. This is a splendid song, by the way.
kja427 7 months ago
The tragic end of Pete Ham breaks my heart.........Badfinger is the soundtrack of my youth! Awesome music!
Littlehuahua53 8 months ago 10
@Littlehuahua53 Badfinger takes me back to a Very Magical Time also! :) this is the music that inspired the phrase... "They just don't write them like that anymore!" Rock On Friends!!!
buck6233 4 months ago
They are very good.
Malibucompany 8 months ago
Is that Dixie on drums? Breaks my heart.
TheHedgieboy 8 months ago
How could this song be possibly disliked??......it just shows those 13 bieber brained assholes couldn't tell what real music is from the piles of trash they play today.....
mybigbluetoad 8 months ago
Beatle puppets....
oldmanmyers 8 months ago
grrreat song, in my opinion
gerbeargrowl 8 months ago in playlist #1
The most amazing thing about this video is that this is a LIVE performance.
tubbysidney 8 months ago
ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGS EVER WRITTEN,,,
robharding1957 8 months ago 18
@robharding1957 easily
AldenNH 4 months ago
I like Peter Ham tapping out the beat with both feet- he goes back and forth between feet. :) Great song, great bad- such a tragedy
iamjustjudy 8 months ago
Awesome, soulful stuff. The world was not fair to you. Beautiful boys, R.I.P.
211FairyTale 8 months ago
Their album "Straight Up" is a classic. it was regarded as such by audiophiles within three years of its release.
crwheat 8 months ago
so beautiful....
LadyDisDesire 8 months ago 2
bring it home, baby make it soon...I give my love to you....day after dayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy <3
LadyDisDesire 8 months ago
I give my love to youuuuu.........everyday my mind is all around you, day after dayyyy..
LadyDisDesire 8 months ago
seen these guys live in 72 awesome...........what might have been?
gossie55 8 months ago
Saddest and most beautiful band ever.
bethany3844 8 months ago 6
fukin brill band :)
MrFukitt 8 months ago
I would put this song up against many Beatles songs, not to compete, but to show these guys were as good in many ways, not ripoffs either. Pete Ham and Tom Evans were master songwriters, the likes of Lennon/McCartney. Ironically what they never got financially is being rectified through their music and I think that their legacy and popularity is being magnified as years go by.
MrOwenw405 8 months ago 30
@MrOwenw405 Of course they were not Beatle ripoffs, they were discovered by the Beatles and recorded by Apple Corps records. (I believe)
MsHatesHaters 8 months ago in playlist badfinger list
@MsHatesHaters : It was Beatles roadie Mal Evans who discovered the group (as the Iveys) playing in a club, that he mentioned to the Beatles about this group, whom they ended up signing onto Apple Records.
amb2745 4 months ago
@MrOwenw405 does pete ham sound like paul mccartney to you? because all these years, i thought i was listening to paul mccartney. i thought this was his band.
m1kewithaone 6 months ago
@MrOwenw405 Ham and Evans were great at songwriting no doubt, when you mentioned the Beatles, you forgot to mention Harrison's superb songwriting (He was every bit as good as Lennon and McCartney in my opinion). When it comes down to vocal range I'd side with the Beatles, and for instrumental ability the Beatles again. Songwriting is close but for me its the Beatles again because of Harrison, Lennon, and McCartney....
BL80488 4 months ago
@MrOwenw405 Just a note. Paul McCartney got them signed with Apple and worked with them to help their career along. You can hear Paul in their songs through Pete.
brofranomo 4 months ago
Pete Ham is great...have loved this song since childhood
tonickton 8 months ago 3
died at 27
Abe91195 9 months ago
I agree. You don't kill yourself because you have unbelievably great talent and are making smash hit records. The manager trouble could have easily been solved with an ass-wuppin' like we do it here down south. That SOB should have been made to account for every penny and forced to make restitution to their estates.
kduncanala 9 months ago
The number of suicides and the reasons proffered contravenes too many facts. Why would a guy about to go on vacation decide to end it all. I think the two band members were murdered. Problem is, forensics was too poor to investigate a case back then.
lomertamahon1 9 months ago 2
@lomertamahon1 Man, I never thought about that but I believe you really bring up a great point. The crooked manager they had that ripped them off was capable of anything!!
tvise1973 8 months ago
It's hard to describe just how good Badfinger's hits sounded on the radio to a 13 yr. old when these songs came out. As if the beatles continued on...R.I.P. Pete and Tom!
jehosh5577 9 months ago 4
classic ,,,, make no mistake,,badfinger were a brilliant band,,
robharding1957 9 months ago
a great song i wish i was around in the 70s
nokia1931 9 months ago 2
awesome band love love love these songs by badfinger that just pisses me off that they got taken like that di not know about what happened to the group will be missed, they were awesome,should be in inducted no matter what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
amigogchico1 9 months ago
'Magnificent' does not begin to describe this soulful masterpiece! Pete Ham and Tom Evans may be gone but the indelible contribution they made to the world of music will live on and on and on....
kayem11 9 months ago 6
Oh how good things don't last in this world! Magnificent does not begin to describe this soulful masterpiece. Pete Ham and Tom Evans may be gone but their indelible contribution to music will live on and and on and on....!!!
kayem11 9 months ago
al puro estilo Harrisoniano con esta rolota bien Badfinger
MARI007100 9 months ago
Day after day Uncle Bob we paray for you!
padude64 9 months ago
Who is the drummer?
Eligoliveira 9 months ago
@Eligoliveira - Mike Gibbons (passed away in 2005) and played in Badfinger almost from the very beginning and except for a couple of years at the close of the 70s-beginning of the 80s, was always in the band.
Hto0h 4 months ago
This is só strange ...
'Breaking us in two', Joe Jackson ...
reminiscent83 9 months ago
What an awesome song this is! If Badfinger had continued to make music with this great line-up, one can only imagine how much more beautiful music the world would have had in it, by these great musicians! I also remember great memories of hearing this in mom's car as a kid! Those were the best times! Peace, Love, and Joy to all! BobbyK
bobby7771117 9 months ago 2
This lot should have been mega.
freakunt 9 months ago
Oh to be able to turn the clock back to the early '70s
MrSarobs 9 months ago 4
Today's musicians should familiarize themselves with the tragic story of Badfinger...unfortunately very few of today's musicians know, or care to know, about this band and their cautionary tale. So incredibly sad, so incredibly sad.
MrSarobs 9 months ago
Is this dubbed? Where's the piano?
amazonjn 9 months ago
great song by a great band such a sad story
nokia1931 9 months ago
although im not from UK nor have there, i feel like i am back in the 70s following this band like a groupie
OnicGenic 10 months ago
I remember I kept the alarm for 6 am to listen to this song because the repeat program on BBC would come on at that time. The best song for 6 months after this was released. 1971 and 1972 were full of this.
Friends and I even wavered between Badfinger and the Beatles for a while. Stan Polley, their manager, made me hate all Americans for a while. I came out after a while but but I can never forgive him for two badfingers' death, the swine
originalpauper 10 months ago 6
Now Pete Ham is on Mad Men.
castingtherunes 10 months ago
great song
bolmsp 10 months ago
Some say that the universe geomerty rules out back-in-time travelling. Yet jumping trough the future seems to be still possible. Now some masterpieces, like this one, drive me so easily down to my past, that even before my yz wide opened , those images, events, people, come all again so smoothly from within melody and harmony, with such a sense of being real - that I cannot find my heart into physics any longer.
Kareenfly 10 months ago
Great song. Great slide guitar. I remember this song when I was in my 20s and remembering ...
TheBluesDixonary 10 months ago
This is a good song for those of us including myself who need to indulge in their pain for a while. Ever tell someone you have strong feelings for them only to find out they do not feel the same? Good song trust me, I just went through it.
mateojack100 10 months ago
@mateojack100
Good comment. The way I hear this song is that it is desperate and sad, but optimistic too. I guess it's a matter of interpretation - but one of my all time favourites!
SirRoastalot 10 months ago 2
Great song from the past~Thank you*~
all4musica 10 months ago
Whenever they try to hype up one of today's new songs, just ask yourself: Is it as good as Badfinger's "Day After Day?"
takfam07 10 months ago 6
Makes you wonder why musicians today can't write an incredible song like this. It's been probably 20 years since we've heard a new original song that was truly great. (If I'm wrong, name one!) I think it's because too many great pop songs were pulled out of the air in the '60s-'70s. None left for today's artists, so instead they rely on visual posturing, attitude, and dance-- the cheap way out.
takfam07 10 months ago
so much sorrow in his voice.... yeah great group sad story!! beautiful lyrics in their songs.... tragic tragic....
MrJankristian 10 months ago
The words & music & vocals & percussion so fluid like a stream of truth that washes the pain away & leaves scent of love & hope.
timothytwin61 10 months ago 4
I have such wonderful memories of hearing this on my mom's radio as we were traveling in her car! I wish two angels could have been sent to prevent the two members who committed suicide! Badfinger was a very special and talented group! Peace and Love, BobbyK
bobby7771117 10 months ago
I loved this song as a child, hearing it on the radio in my mom's car! How I wish an angel was sent to both members that committed suicide, so it would never have had to happen! Badfinger was definitely a very special and talented group! Love and Peace to all! Sincerely, BobbyK
bobby7771117 10 months ago
Makes me happy to know creativity, talent and history like this still can be seen.
Tragic endings and all, Badfinger will live on in cyberspace.
One of my fave tunes and groups from my youth, so much so, I had to cover it.
Peace, Light , Hugs and Harmony, it's all good.
Thanks so much for posting this!
LyricLover4ever 11 months ago
Savatage Rox !!
amapoorguy 11 months ago
This is my favorite song by Badffinger. The music from those gloriuous days of the 1960s, early 70s cannot be replicated. Although some of today's music is good, it can't compare to the 1950s, 60s, 70s.
primogennaio 11 months ago
I've always loved this song and to listen to Pete and Tom's vocals I can see why if you didn't know better, you might think they sounded like the Beatles..Just a sad, tragic story theirs and it's still a shame they're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because they at least deserve that much.
mondo1641 11 months ago 4
One of the saddest stories in rock, or anything for that matter. What a voice. What a band. What a shame.
philgrey14 11 months ago
who's the drummer? and where's mike gibbins? :o
Linnung 11 months ago
@Linnung That's Rob Stawinsky filling in for Mike on drums.
bigdust211 10 months ago
@Linnung
The drummer in the video clip is Rob Stravinsky. Mike left the band briefly in 1972 and Rob filled in for one tour.
beatlefan64 10 months ago
FOREVER BADFINGER!
thefreedomlass 11 months ago
Dudes today can no way in hell make great music like this. Dudes today cant even sing in harmony.....WTF...Where is the talent?
spacetrucker40 11 months ago 4
What a great band ! Always liked their music They are on of my fav bands ! Arturo
Arturo48100 11 months ago
I'd pet Pete Ham's ham any day.
dusty36 11 months ago
The Beatles of the 70's
corkskrewclubhouse93 11 months ago
What an amazing band. Loved them!
FiberMania 11 months ago 5
Where the hell is the piano in this video? There's obviously a piano track in the recording. And this "Chew" he remembers finding out about, who's that? Me thinks "Chew" is the invisible piano player...
seanhata 11 months ago
Para una amiga especial a quien tanto quiero.
Espero nunca perderte, mi querida X.
VincentL7 1 year ago
cool!
pontello3 1 year ago
Some tasty slide work!
canuckowl 1 year ago
@canuckowl tasty lead guitar playing because George harrison is playing it on the LP
inkey2 11 months ago
Who is the drummer here? Doesn't look like Mike Gibbins.
curtmath 1 year ago