Badfinger: Straight Up
Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 8 January 1972
THIS IS THE story of how Badfinger won the West. They didn't really have to do much in fact. They just went to America, did a couple of tours and watched their albums sell. It was as easy as that, and they wish it could have been the same here.
Total word count of piece: 855
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