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Monday, June 8, 2009 at 6:08PM Badfinger
An interesting fact about the band Badfinger is that two of it’s members hanged themselves (insert David Carradine joke in the comments section.) They were one of the first band’s signed to the Beatles’ record label Apple records in 1969. They had some hits and then they hired a new manager, Stan Polley, who talked them into leaving Apple for a more lucrative deal at RCA records. He also had them sign over all their publishing and touring money to his bank so he could manage the money. He told them that if they toured steadlily and lived cheaply for a couple of years they’d all be millionaires. So they worked their asses off and lived like poor people only to find out after a couple years that the manager had stolen all their money and he couldn’t be found. Lead singer and guitarist Pete Ham’s girlfriend was pregnant and he became so distraught that he hung himself in their garage on April 24th, 1975. In his suicide note he wrote, “Stan Polley is a soulless bastard.” On November 19, 1983, bassist Tom Evans got into a heated argument with guitarist Joey Molland on the phone over royalty paymemts and he told Molland he was going to hang himself. And he did. They found him the next morning, hanging from a tree in his garden. I guess the lesson to be learned here is don’t get all hung up on life. So in the spirit of that, tonight I’d like to present not one, but two Daily Videos. The first is Badfinger doing their song, Baby Blue (and check out Kenny Rogers introducing them, it’s before he became a chicken salesman) and the second is a Stranglers song that always makes me think of Badfinger for some reason.
