Wish You Were Here (Badfinger album)

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Wish You Were Here is an album by rock band Badfinger. It was recorded in the spring of 1974 at Colorado's Caribou Ranch and released in November of that year on Warner Brothers Records. It was the second and last album released by the band on the WB label.

Although the album received positive reviews in music magazine Rolling Stone upon its release, it was pulled out of record stores in 1975 due to a lawsuit between the record label and Badfinger's management. Due to the album's abbreviated manufacturing run and short tenure on the market, the original LP is relatively rare. In the 1990s it was re-released in CD format in Japan and Germany only, making Wish You Were Here difficult to find in this format as well. Most of the tracks, however, have been released on other Badfinger compilations.

Wish You Were Here was Badfinger's fifth and final album released by core band members Pete Ham, Joey Molland, Tom Evans and Mike Gibbins. Molland resigned from the band shortly after the LP was released, and Ham died approximately six months later.

Although the next Badfinger album to be released in series is Airwaves in 1979, Ham, Evans, Gibbins and keyboardist Bob Jackson recorded an album titled Head First in December 1974. This album, however, was not released until 2000.

Track listing

"Just A Chance" (Ham)
"You're So Fine" (Gibbins)
"Got To Get Out Of Here" (Molland)
"Know One Knows" (Ham)
"Dennis" (Ham)
"In The Meantime/Some Other Time" (Gibbins/Molland)
"Love Time" (Molland)
"King Of The Load" (Evans)
"Meanwhile Back At The Ranch/Should I Smoke" (Ham/Molland)

Personnel

Tom Evans - Vocals, bass
Mike Gibbins - Vocals, drums, keyboard
Pete Ham - Vocals, guitar, keyboards
Joey Molland - Vocals, guitar
Average White Horns - Horn on "Should I Smoke"
Mika Kato - Japanese spoken words on "Know One Knows" (Uncredited)

Sources

Dan Matovina, Without You: The Tragic Story Of Badfinger.

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