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Badfinger
No Dice
Capitol 1970

Badfinger's story is proof that the Rock is a chronicle of many chronic shadows, with many names that were on the road.
In the late 60s some Beatles devised to dissolve a company, Apple Records, which planned to discover new talent and launch them to stardom personally involved with the project, as many as they developed in those years proved to be a failure business, demonstrating that the four magnificos Liverpool were much better musicians entrepreneurs.
One of the first groups to sign with Apple, and one of the most successful in the short career of the company was Badfinger, a group formed by Pete Ham in 1965, initially as The Iveys, drew the attention of Paul McCartney who hired them to record a debut album that would be called "Maybe Tomorrow." The commercial failure of this first album led to several changes in the formation of banda and the final adoption of the name Badfinger taking a stanza of "With A Little Help From My Friends" from the Beatles.
The classical training of Badfinger with Pete Ham, Joey Mollander, Tom Evans and Mike Gibbins was a combo of tanning, and in many bands with a taste in music ranging from Rock America's most elegant rhythmic pop of the late 60s, with, for course, the Beatles to the head.
"No Dice" was the second disk as Badfinger Apple, published in 1970, was a notable success for the band and a profitable source of revenue for the company that showed its first financial inconsistencies.
Although Pete Ham was the original composer and singer of The Iveys gradually the other members of Badfinger were also showing excellent composers and musicians while the band won every day consitencia tanned multiple projects in parallel with George Harrison or John Lennon.
"No Dice" is an unbeatable cocktail of hard-rock and pop melodies brillantísimas with at least three rounds and absolutely incontestable: "I Can not Take It", "No Matter What" and "Without You" and songs that acertadísimas ranging from folk of "I Do not Mind" and the country of "Blodwyn" by completing a truly brilliant album Badfinger confirmed as one of the best bands of their time retrieving the strength of Rock and Roll to the primordial Pop melodies more inspired.
Badfinger is a group where hundreds of bands have been reflected from a Teenage Fanclub The Posies, Gigolo Aunts passing by, or Fountains Of Wayne Sloan, setting guidelines for what was later called Power-pop.
After publishing several brilliant albums in Apple, almost always overshadowed by the long shadow of the Beatles group was shaken by the problems and began to dismember the company and stop at the Warner ended where the financial, legal and personal continued culminating with the suicide of Pete Ham in 1975 and later with the Tom Evans in 1981.
Above the black legend surrounding Badfinger are always vibrant, powerful, strong and energetic songs that the group composed in his short, intense career, some songs and a legacy that remains unaltered.