Edina, by. – Joey Molland, a guitarist of the Pop-Rock band Walesa Badfinger who was known for the successes of the 70s as “no matter what” and “day after the day”, he died at age 77.
Molland was the last to join and had been the last survivor of the most famous alignment of the group, which he recorded for him Beatles ‘Seleta Apple. His death was confirmed on Tuesday by Sam Sheffield-West, the funeral director of the Funeral Washburn-McReavy chapels in Edina, Minnesota. Molland had lived in the state for decades. Additional details about his death were not available immediately.
Badfinger was a quartet that also included singer-guitarist Pete Ham, bass player Tom Evans and drummer Tom Gibbins. They were among the first acts signed with Apple after the Beatles threw it in 1968 and would remain closely associated with the Beatles, not always to Badfinger’s taste, throughout their brief years of success. Molland even grew near Penny Lane de Liverpool, immortalized in the Beatles song of the same name.
Badfinger’s success, “Come and get it” was written and produced by Paul McCartneyAnd another simple Top 10, “Day after the day,” was produced by George Harrison and presented Harrison’s Slide guitar. “No matter what” was produced by the official/Assistant of the Beatles of Apple, Mal Evans, and another Badfinger song, “Without you”, became a success for the friend of the Beatles Harry Nilsson. Molland and his bandmates would also appear in the 1971 beneficial concert of Harrison for Bangladesh and would provide the support of the solo albums of two members of the Beatles: “All Things Must Pass” by Harrison and “Imagine” by John Lennon.
Critics could not stop comparing Badfinger’s catchy melodies, layers in layers and arrangements adjusted to their benefactors: “It is as if John, Paul, George and Ringo had been reincarnated as Joey, Pete, Tom and Mike de Badfinger,” Rolling Stone wrote of them in 1970. Even the name of the band originated in the band. Beatles. Badles Apple officer’s suggestion/Beatles Neil Aspinall assistant, agreed to change it to Badfinger.
His time at the top ended after 1972. In the midst of Apple’s cuts and accusations of financial mismanagement, Badfinger went to Warner Bros., commercially faded and maintained a tragic loss when Ham took his life in 1975. After initially breaking, the remaining members gathered periodically but never approached their early success.
Evans took his life in 1983 and Gibbins died of a cerebral aneurysm in 2005.
Molland remained active long after Badfinger’s improvement, touring until his health began to fail last year and launching solo albums as “This way up” “after the pearl” and “Be Field to Yourself”.
“They raised me to go to work, to get up in the morning and go to work,” he told The Associated Press in 2001.
