Editing Badfinger (section)

===Turmoil and personnel changes===
Crises in band management, money, and band leadership were creating growing frictions within Badfinger. Molland's wife, Kathie, had been taking a more assertive role in the band's politics, which did not endear her to the rest of the band, particularly Ham. She remembered complaining that even though the band had hit records, they "still didn't have a fridge, and didn't have a TV".{{sfn|Katz|1997}} However, one of the band's assistants said, "Kathie was a wishful [[Linda McCartney]]. If she had her way, she would have ended up part of the band."{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=192}}  Just before the start of rehearsals for an October 1974 UK tour, Ham suddenly quit Badfinger during a management meeting,{{sfn|Talevski|1999|p=167}} standing up and shouting "I don't want Kathie managing the band! I'm leaving".{{sfn|Segalstad| Hunter |2009}} He found a cottage in Wales, where he hoped to build a studio.{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=261}} He was quickly replaced by guitarist/keyboardist [[Bob Jackson (musician)|Bob Jackson]], who was then idle after previous involvement with [[the Fortunes]].<ref name="BobStarCluster">{{cite web|url=http://www.starclustermusic.de/artists/badfinger/jackson/bio/jackson1.htm|title=Bob Jackson|publisher=Star Cluster|access-date=23 June 2011}}</ref> During Ham's three-week hiatus from the band, Polley tried to interest record companies in Ham as a solo act, but under pressure from Warner Brothers, Ham rejoined the band in time for the tour, as the company made it clear that it would have little to no interest in promoting Badfinger if Ham was not a part of it. Jackson remained as full-time keyboardist, making the band a quintet. After the UK tour, Molland quit of his own accord to pursue a solo career in December 1974.{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=301}}
[[File:Bob Jackson musician.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Guitarist/keyboardist [[Bob Jackson (musician)|Bob Jackson]] in 1990]]

With the Warner situation becoming increasingly unstable, Polley's next ploy was to press the band to pass up a US tour to go back into Apple Recording Studios to record its third album under the Warner Brothers contract. Because Thomas, the producer of Badfinger's last three albums, thought that the band was rushing into the studio too quickly, Polley hired [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] producers Kenny Kerner and Richie Wise to produce the album. Over only 11 days at the Apple studios,<ref name="Backtowhere"/> tracks were recorded for the ''[[Head First (Badfinger album)|Head First]]'' album (eventually released in 2000),<ref name="StoryBehindHeadFirst">{{cite web|url=http://www.mindspring.com/~crimson3/bkxcrpthead.html |title=The Story Behind ''Head First'' |first=Dan |last=Matovina |publisher=Matovina |access-date=26 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605144535/http://www.mindspring.com/~crimson3/bkxcrpthead.html |archive-date=5 June 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> and rough mixes were distributed to the musicians and Warner Brothers Records in America. However, because Warner's publishing arm had already filed a lawsuit against Polley and Badfinger in the L.A. Superior Court on 10 December 1974, the album tapes could not be formally accepted by Warner Bros. – and Warner executives also thought the rough tapes sounded "thrown together in a hurry" in "an obvious attempt [to] extract further advances from us".{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=277}}  The legal action also led to the company stopping the promotion of ''Wish You Were Here'' after seven weeks,{{sfn|Buckley|2003|p=vii}} and ending its distribution worldwide, thus completely halting Badfinger's career.{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=274}}