The Guardian only printed the obituary of Joey Molland, guitarist with Badfinger on Wednesday 7/5/25 but it must have been on its website for over a month.

I have featured the band’s big hits Come and Get It, plus Day After Day and No Matter What before.

This song was on their LP No Dice in 1970 but was made more famous by Nilsson a couple of years later.

Badfinger: Without You

Nilsson: Without You

Joseph Charles (Joey) Molland: 21/6/1947 – 1/3/2025. So it goes.

There was just something about this that I liked.

Maybe it was because the sound reminded me of Badfinger, as I’ve mentioned before, specifically Day After Day.

Embrace: All You Good Good People

Speaking of Badfinger, this song of theirs only just creeps in to this category as it was released in the UK in December 1969.

Badfinger were one of the (few?) successes of the Beatles’ Apple label. The only other one I can recall was Mary Hopkin.

Badfinger: Come And Get It

I remember reading somewhere in the late 90s a complaint that “none of today’s bands have a knowledge of music that goes back more than ten years,” or words to that effect. In that case, I thought, why do Embrace sound like Badfinger?

I can’t remember which Embrace song it was but Badfinger’s was either, or both, of these.

Badfinger: Day After Day

Badfinger: No Matter What