BADFINGER
— that’s the real thing I get from
United Press International
Badfinger’s Elektra/Asylum
debut album, Airwaves, contains
“songs that have been develop
ing for years of polishing and re
writing,” according to bassist
Tom Evans.
Evans and guitarist/pianist
Joey Molland comprise the core
of Badfinger. The two alternate
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Full of Blues
7. Billy Joel — 52nd Street
8. Peaches & Herb — 2 Hot!
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10. Olivia Newton-John — To
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More
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side Your Love
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Taking
and harmonize on lead vocals.
Contributing artists on Airwaves
include Nicky Hopkins on
keyboards, Steve Foreman on
percussion, Andy Newmark and
Ken Harck. Joe Tansin, who
wrote two songs, plays guitar on
the album.
Molland and Evans have spent
recent years playing with other
groups and composing, con
stantly honing their writing. Ac
cording to Molland, “we brought
back everything from other
places, other times, other groups,
put it together with new things
and I think it’s stronger and better
than ever.”
The two discussed the indi
vidual songs on Airwaves:
AIRWAVES
Molland: “It is based on a guitar
lick I’ve had for years, a nice
funky riff.”
Evans: “And I finished it, just
juiced it up a little.”
LOOK OUT, CALIFORNIA
Evans: “ ‘Look out, California’ is
just a song I wrote when I knew I
was really coming over here. It
was cold and raining in England
at the time. California seemed
like such a good idea at the time,
so much to look forward to you
know? That’s exactly what I
feel...look out, I’m coming!”
LOST INSIDE YOUR LOVE
Evans: “Basically it’s a love song
and it’s funny because it’s a song
I had running around in my mind
for a time as a hate song. It was a
downer song I’d written in a very
bad period of my life. Once I got
over here and I realized how ev
erything was going to work out, it
turned around in my head, be
came very positive.”
LOVE IS GONNA COME AT
LAST
Molland: "It’s a song about hope
it. It’s something we believe. I
think this one sounds most like
the things we did in the past,
brought up to date.”
THE DREAMER
Molland: “It’s like a story-song.
Sometimes it seems to me to be
about the music business and
sometimes about life. I dream all
the time, and this seems to be
one of my dreams about the his
tory of the rock musician. It began
as a song about someone who
was fighting for himself, and fi
nally decided he could win.”
COME DOWN HARD
Molland: “It’s a rock story song
about a chick and a guy, there’s
some two-timing in it. She has all
her plans laid out, but it just
doesn’t happen that way. She
comes down really hard, just fac
ing the reality of the situation.”
SAIL AWAY
Evans: “I think it’s pretty, really
pretty. The basic idea is when
you feel fed up, what will you do?
I think all of us just — ‘sail away!’
SYMPATHY and THE WINNER
These are Tansin-composed
songs, arranged by the group for
a more contemporary impact.
Molland: “ ‘Sympathy’ started out
as a 1958 Les Paul song, finally
evolving into the point it could be
played in discos.”
England Dan & John Ford Coley
England Dan and John Ford
Coley, who have recently
changed their style of music, will
perform in G. Rollie White Col
iseum Friday at 8 p.m.
The change toward a dynamic
rock style which began last year
has crystallized in their latest Big
Tree album “Dr. Heckle and Mr.
Jive.” England Dan and John
Ford Coley’s stage performance
has taken on new dimensions.
Backed by five rock musicians,
the concert flows from the soft,
melodic songs which are
synonymous with the duo’s im
age, to the vitalizing emotion of
rock. With the addition of Dan’s
expertise on saxophone and
John’s expansion to synthesizer,
their performance gains an even
greater magnetism. Their back up
band (Dan Gorman on drums,
Bubba Keith on guitar, harmonica
and vocals, John Leland on bass,
Ovid Stevens on lead guitar and
Michael Vernacchio on
keyboards) appears on “Dr.
Heckle and Mr. Jive” for the first
time.
Throughout the past year, Dan
and John kept up a rigorous tour
ing schedule which took them
across the country. In the fall of
1978 they were welcomed by
enthusiastic, cheering audiences
in Japan and Hong Kong. It was
ironic that their first overseas tour
in many years would be to Japan,
the site of their first top five single
“Simone” in 1972. In the United
States, they covered most of the
major fairs and summer music
festivals held across the country,
broke attendance records at the
largest amusement parks and
held performances at many of the
colleges they played.
Their first Big Tree singles bul
leted on the national Top 20
charts beginning with “I’d Really
Love To See You Tonight,” con
tinuing through “Nights Are
Forever,“Sad To Belong,” “Gone
Too Far,” and ” We’ll Never Have
To Say Goodbye Again.”
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