badfinger Archive
26 Aug 2022
Five Underrated Classics from Badfinger
Another “Take Five”… June marked the 75th birthdays of two members of Badfinger. Bassist/guitarist/songwriter Tom Evans would have celebrated his birthday on June 5 (he took his life in 1983); […]
26 Apr 2021
Album Review: Badfinger — No Matter What: Revisiting the Hits
The appearance of this CD in my mailbox elicited a cringe: would it be terrible? A crass attempt to capitalize on the reputation of a band that made some of […]
14 Nov 2020
Hundred-word Reviews for November 2020, Part One
Today marks the triumphant return of my hundred-word reviews. My last roundup of new releases in the form of brief critical summaries came way back in February, before the world […]
21 Feb 2020
Come and Get It: Badfinger’s ‘Magic Christian Music’ at 50
With the benefit of a half century’s hindsight, it can be argued that despite massive creativity and talent, Badfinger was star-crossed nearly from its start. Though the British-Welsh band were […]
03 Jan 2020
The ‘It Was Fifty Years Ago Today’ Tour, Part Two
The continuing story of the Beatles’ White Album Continued from Part One… Todd Rundgren readily admits that he views The Beatles as an uneven record. “The album is incoherent,” he […]
02 Jan 2020
The ‘It Was Fifty Years Ago Today’ Tour, Part One
The continuing story of the Beatles’ White Album Tribute concerts and tours are a fixture of today’s live music experience. Sometimes they’re self-tribute: Legacy acts take advantage of decades of […]
25 Feb 2019
A Conversation with Producer Chris Thomas
Chris Thomas is among the most celebrated and admired record producers of the rock era. Beginning with the Beatles, he went on to work with many of the top acts […]
05 Feb 2019
Badfinger’s WB Years Revisited, Part Two
Continued from Part One… As brilliant as the original mixes of Badfinger’s two Warners albums are, the 2018 bonus mixes shed additional light on the process of making those records. […]
04 Feb 2019
Badfinger’s WB Years Revisited, Part One
The story of Badfinger is a cautionary tale, one filled with betrayal, despair, missed opportunity, unfulfilled promise, neglect and two suicides. But all of those discomforting elements should not overshadow […]
14 Jul 2015
Some Long-lost Artist Biographies
Way back in the depths of the Great Recession (2007-2009), one of my former writers (from my time as Editor in Chief of a now-defunct magazine I won’t dignify by […]