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Badfinger
No Dice
Capitol 1970

Badfinger's story is proof that the story of the Rock is a chronicle with many shadows, with many names that were left on the road.
A few late 60s Beatles to dissolve devised a record label, Apple Records, which planned to discover new talent and launching them into stardom personally involved with them, the project, like so many that came up during those years was still a failure commercial, showing that the four magnificent Liverpool were much better musicians to 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, caught the attention of Paul McCartney who hired them to record a first album to be known as "Maybe Tomorrow". The commercial failure of this first album led to several changes in the formation of the band and the final adoption of the Badfinger name by taking a verse of "With A Little Help From My Friends" by the Beatles.
The band's classic Badfinger, Pete Ham, Joey Molland, Tom Evans and Mike Gibbins was a combo tanning and in many bands with some musical tastes ranging from the more rhythmic American Rock Pop elegant late 60s, with at Of course, the Beatles to the head.
"No Dice" was the second disk as Badfinger Apple, published in 1970, was a major success for the band and a profitable source of revenue for the company already showing its first financial inconsistencies.
Although Pete Ham was the original composer and singer of The Iveys, little by little the rest were members of Badfinger is also revealing as excellent composers and musicians while the band was earning a daily consistence, experienced in multiple parallels with George Harrison or John Lennon.
"No Dice" is an unbeatable cocktail of hard-rock and glittering pop melodies, with at least three topics absolutely round and incontestable: "I Can not Take It", "No Matter What" and "Without You" and songs that aptly 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, regaining the strength of the Rock and Roll Primal serving the most inspired pop melodies.
Badfinger is a group where hundreds of bands that have reflected from Teenage Fanclub The Posies, Gigolo Aunts passing, Sloan or Fountains Of Wayne, establishing guidelines that would later be called power-pop.
Having published several brilliant albums in Apple almost always eclipsed by the long shadow of the Beatles group was dogged by problems that were beginning to break up the record company and make landfall at Warners 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 that surrounds Badfinger always be vibrant, strong, vibrant and vital songs the group wrote in its brief but intense career, some songs and a legacy that remains fully in force.