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Article: Badfinger lives on, on paper and on stage Book chronicles tragic lives of original members from '70s; new version of band will perform Tuesday at Rave Bar
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 5, 1998
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Anyone with fond memories of "Day After Day," "Come and Get It,"
"No Matter What" and other radio-rock classics of the early '70s
would be well within their rights to wonder "Whatever happened to
Badfinger?"
For a while there, the four-man group recording for the Beatles'
Apple label seemed to have the Midas touch. The rich, melodic songs
breathed sweet life back into the airwaves and restored hope for a
world suddenly deprived of its beloved Beatles.
Some people actually believed Badfinger was the Beatles, or at
least some of the Beatles, writing and recording with a round table
of session musicians and cloaking themselves in pseudonyms to keep
everything low-key, and to keep everybody ...