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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 shades, with many names that were on the road.
A few late 60s Beatles to dissolve devised a record company, Apple Records, which planned to discover new talent and launch them into stardom personally involved with them, the project, like so many that came up in those years resulted in failure , demonstrating 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 would be called "Maybe Tomorrow." The commercial failure of this first album led to several changes in line-up and 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 musical tastes ranging from American Rock Pop over to the elegant rhythm of the late 60s, with, for Of course, the Beatles to the head.
"No Dice" was the second to Apple Badfinger album, released in 1970, was a notable success for the band and a profitable source of revenue for the company that was 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 excellent composers and musicians while winning the band consisted of hereditary daily, worn in multiple parallel projects with George Harrison or John Lennon.
"No Dice" is a superb cocktail glittering Hard-rock and pop tunes, with at least three things that are absolutely round and unanswerable: "I Can not Take It", "No Matter What" and "Without You" and songs that aptly ranging from the folk of "I Do not Mind" and the country of "Blodwyn" by completing a truly brilliant album Badfinger confirmed as one of the best groups of their time, regaining the strength of the Rock and Roll primitive to serve the most inspired pop melodies.
Badfinger is a group where hundreds of bands have been reflected from a Teenage Fanclub The Posies, through Gigolo Aunts, Sloan or Fountains Of Wayne, establishing guidelines that would later be called power-pop.
After releasing several albums in Apple's shiny, almost always eclipsed by the long shadow of the Beatles group was dogged by problems which were beginning to break up the record 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 Tom Evans in 1981.
Above the black legend that surrounds Badfinger always be vibrant, powerful, energetic and vitalistic the group composed songs in his short, intense career, some songs and a legacy that remains fully in force.