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Joey Molland, Badfinger Guitarist, Dead at 77

Joey Molland, guitarist and last surviving core member of the rock group Badfinger, has died at the age of 77.

The guitarist’s first LP with Badfinger, 1970’s No Dice co-produced by Beatles road manager Mal Evans, featured the tracks “No Matter What” and “Without You,” later re-popularized by both Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey. When Molland and Evans reunited Badfinger in the late Seventies — sans Gibbins and Ham, who died by suicide in 1975 — the guitarist took on a larger role, taking on half the songwriting and singing duties on 1979’s Airwaves and 1981’s Say No More. Outside of Badfinger but within the Beatles universe, Molland also made appearances on George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass and The Concert for Bangladesh, as well as played guitar on John Lennon’s 1971 single “Jealous Guy” and “I Don’t Wanna Be a Soldier” on Imagine.

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