Without You : The Tragic Story of Badfinger (with 72 minute cd)

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Summary: Highly-Recommended
Review: Without You is a major music book. It's what music books should be about and all too rarely are. It should be compulsory reading for anyone - and I do mean anyone - in a band. It answers the unanswerable question: how could two men who wrote some of the most successful songs of the early 70's, including one all-time standard, end up broke, helpless, abandoned and finally, sufficiently self-destructive to take their own lives? Essential reading for any music fan as a look into the dichotomy of the music business, a world where careers are destroyed as blithely as they were created.

Rating:
Summary: Compulsory Reading
Review: Without You is a major music book... It's what music books should be about and all too rarely are. It should be compulsory reading for anyone - and I do mean anyone - in a band.

Rating:
Summary: Must Read
Review: Without You is a must-read for anyone who still harbors illusions about the music business as a world where creativity (or honor) comes before the bottom line... the best way for aspiring musicians to honor the memory of Pete Ham and Tom Evans would be to study this book. If even one band learns from Badfinger's mistakes, ... Matovina's work - will not have been in vain.