Badfinger : Without You - The Tragic Story Of Badfinger

- Bonus CD with first 1000 copies of Tha Dan Matovina Badfinger Biography - Issued on Frances Glover Books in 1997


Tracks: Written By: Lead Singer: Time
1:Good Times Together (Evans) Tom 2.13
2:Uncle C. (Evans) Tom 1.28
3:Without You (If It's Love) (Ham) Pete 1.38
4:Without You (I can't Live) (Evans) Tom 1.35
5:Carry On Till Tomorrow (Evans/Ham) Tom and Pete 4.30
6:Just How Lucky We Are (Ham) Pete 5.12
7:Doesn't Really Matter (Ham) Pete 2.59
8:Ringside (Ham) Pete 3.59
9:Lost Inside Your Love (Evans) Tom 2.50
10:I Won't Forget You (Jackson) Bob 4.07

My Comments:

This CD was released with the first 1000 copies of The Badfinger Biography. It consists of demos made by Pete and Tom and one late Badfinger (Goodfinger) track from 1983. This song written by Bob Jackson is an absolute highlight for me. It's a very beautiful song written for Pete and with Tommy singing harmonies.Bob has done a few overdubs and reproduced this gem later.

Pete and Tommy songs, that eventually became Without You, are icluded here, and these tracks document, that the song was written by Ham/Evans alone - all the words are there. Pete had in fact a good song already but the adding of Tom's chorus made it a classic. Other highlights are the longer version of Just How Lucky We Are and Doesn't Really Matter sung by Pete directly into a cheap cassette recorder, and with noises in the background from TV and some rattling with knives and forks. The sound quality on most of the demos is equal to the bonus-tracks on 7 Park Avenue.

My favourites:I Won't Forget You, Just How Lucky We Are and Doesn't Really Matter

Other very good tracks: If It's Love and Ringside

Of 10 possible stars I would give this album: 6


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