These are two of my favourite power pop bands . Big Star and Badfinger . The tragic tales of two bands who just wanted to make music but never managed to . A lot of their albums went unreleased and thus the bands collapsed .
For the case of Badfinger , they should have been millionaires by now . Pete Ham and Tom Evans wrote the song " Without You " was covered by Harry Nilsson which became a smash hit for him . He actually presented both of them with awards , unlike Mariah Carey who doesn't even acknowledge the original writers . But sadly due to bad management , they both never got a penny and thus their lives collapsed , causing both of them to commit suicide . The whole band just collapsed after that .
Big Star is another tragic story of a band which failed to achieve stardom despite their amazing talents . This band was trying to achieve the sound of the beatles , which they did successfully . They produced many songs which were potential hits . But due to bad management again , everything collapsed . Their albums went unreleased . They disbanded after their lead singer , Chris Bell was killed in a car crash .
Both of these bands were influenced by The Beatles . Both of these bands admired each other and even played together once . Both of their lead singers died at the age of 27 . Both of these bands never got what they wanted to really do , which was to make music .
