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Without You: The Tragic Story of Badfinger
Dan Matovina is a fraud. Although Without You is very entertaining (I enjoyed it and couldn't put it down), it's supposed to be biographical. Instead it's fraudulent, just as it's author is. It's replete with conjecture and extrapolations. This is a person who attached himself, and has capitalized off of a family who's endured significant tragedy,
In he embarked on writing a book that is largely fictitious in content. I have been told this by numerous persons who know Dan well, and have the inside story of this person who most likely didn't even author the book. A celebrity told me this from what he learned. He's a leech off the families and off this individ he stayed with. Lastly, but very importantly: Joey Molland and his late wife Kathie w
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50 Years Ago: How Two Superstars Helped Badfinger Complete &#;Straight Up&#;
Badfinger battled comparisons to the Beatles from nearly the moment they started their musical career.
Producer Tony Visconti worked with the group (then known to the world as the Iveys) and produced their first single, "Maybe Tomorrow" &#x; and even he was astounded at the parallels.
"I sometimes had to look over the control board down into the studio to make sure John [Lennon] and Paul [McCartney] weren't singing lead vocals," Visconti said for the liner notes to The Best of Badfinger.
For better or for worse, the two bands were inextricably tied together: Badfinger was the first group signed to the Beatles' Apple record label. They made a hit out of "Come and Get It," a track written and produced by McCartney that at one point had been considered for Abbey Road.
Then all four of the members of Bad
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As it happens, Badfinger was one of my mother&#;s favorite bands as a high school student. One time while on a trip with her back from a local library, we were listening to an local &#;Classic Hits&#; station and they played &#;Day After Day,&#; and I found the song hauntingly beautiful and deeply melancholy, and I was greatly intrigued that I had never heard of the band before and yet their music was so good. It was in seeking to understand who this band was, and why I had never heard of them before, that led me to research one of the most tragic tales in Rock & Roll history, a tale told very well in the biography Without You [1]. Despite immense talent and the support of the Beatles, a band that should have been recognized for all time instead suffers undeserved obscurity because business problems, including the chaos of Apple Records fall and a corrupt manager, led to the shelving of two great albums at the height of their musical powers and to the suicide of its two songwr