Joey Molland, Badfinger Guitarist, Lifeless at 77

Joey Molland, guitarist and final surviving core member of the rock team Badfinger, has died on the age of 77.

The band’s respectable Fb web page introduced Molland’s demise, noting that he died Saturday night time surrounded via circle of relatives. No reason for demise was once equipped, however Molland had confronted well being problems together with pneumonia in contemporary months.

“Thanks, Joey…for maintaining the band’s track alive for see you later and for being a chum to us all,” the band added.

Molland joined Badfinger — previously the Iveys, and some of the first acts signed to the Beatles’ Apple Data — in 1969 following the recording of the band’s debut album, which incorporated the Paul McCartney-penned hit “Come and Get It.”

The guitarist’s first LP with Badfinger, 1970’s No Cube co-produced via Beatles street supervisor Mal Evans, featured the tracks “No Topic What” and “With out You,” later re-popularized via each Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey.

The core Badfinger lineup of Molland, singer/guitarist Pete Ham, singer/bassist Tom Evans, and drummer Mike Gibbins recorded 5 albums in combination — yielding singles like “Day After Day” and “Child Blue,” each co-produced via George Harrison — earlier than disbanding in 1974.

When Molland and Evans reunited Badfinger within the past due Nineteen Seventies — sans Gibbins and Ham, who died via suicide in 1975 — the guitarist took on a bigger function, taking over part the songwriting and making a song tasks on 1979’s Airwaves and 1981’s Say No Extra.

Outdoor of Badfinger however throughout the Beatles universe, Molland additionally made appearances on George Harrison’s All Issues Will have to Go and The Live performance for Bangladesh, in addition to performed guitar on John Lennon’s 1971 unmarried “Jealous Man” and “I Don’t Wanna Be a Soldier” on Believe.

Molland — who additionally recorded track as a solo artist and a member of the crowd Herbal Fuel — introduced his personal incarnation of Badfinger (dubbed Molland’s Badfinger) within the early 1980s, and remained energetic with that band till his demise.

Following the deaths of Ham, Evans (who additionally died via suicide in 1983), and Gibbins (who died of a mind aneurysm in 2005), Molland was once the final surviving member of Badfinger’s core lineup.