Editing Badfinger (section)

===Post-Badfinger===
Gibbins joined the Flying Aces,<ref name="GibbinsobituaryGuardian"/> and performed session drumming for various Welsh acts, including [[Bonnie Tyler]]'s international hit "[[It's a Heartache]]".<ref name="GibbinsobituaryGuardian">{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/oct/15/guardianobituaries.mainsection1?INTCMP=SRCH|title=Mike Gibbins: Drummer for Badfinger, a Beatles' discovery|first=Dave|last=Laing|newspaper=The Guardian|date=15 October 2005|access-date=21 April 2011}}</ref> Evans and Jackson became part of a group called the Dodgers.{{sfn|Simmonds|2008|p=181}} They released three British singles on Island Records in 1976.{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=311}} "Don't Let Me Be Wrong" was the act's only US release, but failed to chart. Subsequently, the management of the Dodgers fired Evans in 1977 for insubordination and deleted all his performances from the group's subsequent album recordings (later released as ''Love on the Rebound'').{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=315}} The group finally broke up in 1978, after which Jackson joined [[The Searchers (band)|the Searchers]] and the David Byron Band.  Molland started a band in 1975 with [[Colosseum (band)|Colosseum]]'s Mark Clarke and [[Humble Pie (band)|Humble Pie]]'s Jerry Shirley using the moniker Natural Gas. They performed a few concerts as the opening act for [[Peter Frampton]] in 1976. Natural Gas released a self-titled album and three singles, but none managed to chart.{{sfn|Matovina|2000|pp=308–311}}

By 1977, both Molland and Evans were out of the music business. Molland later described his dire economic circumstances: "Thank God I had guitars and I was able to sell some of that stuff. We were flat broke, and that's happened to me three times, where my wife and I have had to sell off everything and go and stay with her parents or do whatever. I installed carpeting for a while in Los Angeles and stuff like that. You do what you've got to do to survive."<ref name="ReferenceLibraryBadfingerHistory">{{cite web|url=http://www.beatlesagain.com/breflib/badfingr.html|title=Reference Library: Badfinger History|first=Matthew|last=Lewis|publisher=David Haber|date=11 September 1997|access-date=26 April 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110609121904/http://www.beatlesagain.com/breflib/badfingr.html| archive-date= 9 June 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> In London, Evans briefly had jobs insulating pipes, and driving a taxi.<ref name="ElektraandRadio"/> Collins was having trouble paying the lease on the group's two-room rehearsal studio at No. 6 [[Denmark Street]], London.{{sfn|Ashton|2003|p=127}} After advertising for new occupants, he was contacted by [[Malcolm McLaren]], manager of the [[Sex Pistols]], who gave Collins £650 ({{Inflation|UK|650|1975|r=-2|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}{{Inflation-fn|UK}}) and a [[Fender Rhodes]] piano as down payment.{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=303}}