Carry On

When shopping at Whole Foods, I heard on the Muzak a familiar Badfinger song, Day After Day. I realized I didn't really know much about them, though I knew many of their songs, and so I looked around until I came across a multi-part documentary about them. Wow, was it sad.

Even though the group had the help of Beatles Paul McCartney and George Harrison, even though their songs became very popular and they became famous, they had so much financial bad luck and hardship that two of the members, Pete Ham and Tom Evans, ended up killing themselves. Each left behind a wife and small child. Knowing this gives their songs a very different feel.