Editing Badfinger (section)

===Ham's suicide and break-up===
With their current album suddenly withdrawn and their follow-up rejected, Badfinger spent the early months of 1975 trying to figure out how to proceed under the unclear legal situation. Their March 1975 salary cheques did not clear, and the April cheques never arrived.{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=282}} Panic set in, especially for Ham, who had recently bought a £30,000 house in [[Woking]], [[Surrey]],{{sfn|Blake|1981|p=195}} and whose girlfriend was expecting a child.{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=281}} According to Jackson, the band tried to continue without Polley's involvement by contacting booking agents and prospective managers throughout London, but they were routinely declined because of their restrictive contracts with Polley and impending legal actions. Ham reportedly tried on many occasions to contact Polley by telephone during the early months of 1975, but was never able to reach him.{{sfn|Katz|1997}}

On the night of 23 April 1975, Ham received a phone call from the United States, telling him that all his money had disappeared. Later that night he met Tom Evans and they went to The White Hart Pub in Surrey together,{{sfn|Katz|1997}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mindspring.com/~crimson3/i-view2.htm |title=The Rebel Route Interview of Dan Matovina |publisher=Mindspring.com |access-date=2015-08-25 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111050/http://www.mindspring.com/~crimson3/i-view2.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> where Ham drank ten [[whisky|whiskies]].{{sfn|Jones|2001|p=116}} Evans drove him home at three o'clock on the morning of 24 April 1975.{{sfn|Katz|1997}} Ham hanged himself in his garage studio in Woking later that morning.{{sfn|Katz|1997}}{{sfn|Simmonds|2008|p=181}} His suicide note—addressed to his girlfriend, Anne Herriot, and her son, Blair—blamed Polley for much of his despair and inability to cope with his disappointments in life.<ref name="Starpulsebiog">{{cite web|url=http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Badfinger/Biography|title=Badfinger Biography|publisher=Starpulse 1999–2011|access-date=18 April 2011}}</ref><ref name="PeteHamNet">{{cite web|url=http://peteham.net|title=Pete Ham|publisher=Pete Ham.net|date=27 April 2007|access-date=21 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319035129/http://www.peteham.net/|archive-date=19 March 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> The note read: "Anne, I love you. Blair, I love you. I will not be allowed to love and trust everybody. This is better. Pete. P.S. Stan Polley is a soulless bastard. I will take him with me".{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=293}} Ham died at the [[27 Club|age of 27]]. He had shown growing signs of [[mental illness]] over the past months, with Gibbins remembering Ham burning [[cigarette]]s on his hands and arms.{{sfn|Katz|1997}} He was cremated at the [[Morriston]] Crematorium, Swansea; his ashes were spread in the memorial gardens.{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=295}} Ham's daughter, Petera, was born one month after his death.{{sfn|Valentine|2006|p=244}}  In May, Warner Bros terminated its contract with Badfinger, and Badfinger dissolved.{{sfn|Matovina|2000|pp=301–304}}  Around that time, Apple also deleted all of Badfinger's albums from its catalogue.{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=296}}