Editing Badfinger (section)

==Since 1984==
In 1984, Molland, Gibbins and [[Bob Jackson (musician)|Jackson]] reunited as Badfinger, along with Al Wodtke and Randy Anderson, playing 31 dates as part of a "20th Anniversary of the British Rock 'N' Roll Tour", which included [[Gerry and the Pacemakers]], [[the Troggs]], [[Billy J. Kramer]] and [[Herman's Hermits]].<ref name="20thAnniversaryTour">{{cite web|url=http://badfinge.ipower.com/Badfinger/BadfingerinConcert/BadfingerinConcert84.html|title=US Tour (20th Anniversary of the British Rock 'N' Roll tour)|first=Tom|last=Brennan|publisher=Tom Brennan's Badfinger Library|access-date=26 April 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809154151/http://badfinge.ipower.com/Badfinger/BadfingerinConcert/BadfingerinConcert84.html|archive-date=9 August 2011}}</ref> In 1986, Molland and Gibbins resumed sporadic touring as Badfinger, with Randy Anderson on guitar and either Mark Healey or A. J. Nicholas on bass. Gibbins left for good in February 1990 following appearances at three auto shows in [[Columbus, Ohio]], [[West Allis, Wisconsin]], and [[Flint, Michigan]].

All four Badfinger albums on Apple, which were deleted from release in 1975, have been reissued twice; first in the early 1990s as part of a revival of the Apple catalogue and again in 2010, when the albums were available individually or as part of the 17-disc Apple Box Set.  The sole Iveys' album ''Maybe Tomorrow'' was also reissued in the early 1990s but was not part of the 2010 campaign.{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=411}}

Badfinger's first collection titled ''Shine On'', spanning their two Warner Brothers albums, was released in the UK in 1989. In 1990, Rhino Records released another Warner Brothers-era compilation, ''The Best of Badfinger, Vol. 2'', including material from both ''Airwaves'' and the previously unreleased ''Head First''. A greatest hits collection taken from Badfinger's four albums on Apple, ''Come and Get It: The Best of Badfinger'', appeared in 1995 on the EMI/Apple/Capitol label, which was the band's first release since 1973's ''Ass'' to be assigned a standard Apple catalogue number: SAPCOR 28.  A more comprehensive collection, with tracks from both record labels, was the 2000s ''The Very Best of Badfinger''.<ref name="TheVeryBestofBadfinger ">{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00004X0Q5 |title=The Very Best of Badfinger |publisher=Apple |date=23 October 2000 |access-date=26 April 2011}}</ref> In 2013, a new compilation titled ''Timeless'' was issued by EMI/Universal both to capitalise on the use of "Baby Blue" in the finale of ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' and to include the 2010 remastered versions of Badfinger's songs on a greatest-hits album.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://badfinge.ipower.com/Badfinger/Badfinger_albums/TimelessMusicalLegacyBadfingerCD.html|title=Timeless..the musical legacy|last=Brennan|first=Tom|date=9 December 2013|access-date=23 October 2016}}</ref>

In 1990, [[Rykodisc]] released ''[[Day After Day: Live]]'', billed as a Badfinger live recording from 1974.<ref name="BruceEderBillboardBiog"/> The album underwent substantial re-recording,<ref name="POPMUSICNYT">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/03/arts/pop-music-it-s-the-same-old-song-well-not-really.html?scp=2&sq=Badfinger&st=cse |title=POP MUSIC; It's the Same Old Song (Well, Not Really) |first=David |last=Browne|newspaper=The New York Times |date=3 March 1991 |access-date=24 April 2011}}</ref> and a rearranged track order by the album's producer, Molland,{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=412}} and had a mixed critical reaction. The album's release then sparked a lawsuit filed by Molland. The band's accounting firm, collecting for a 1985 court order settlement, had re-adjusted against Molland's Apple royalty income by deducting away the percentage amounts of that court order, then reimbursing those amounts to the other Badfinger parties. The Rykodisc contract did not include artist royalty payments, because Molland had advised Rykodisc he would take care of that distribution himself under another company name.{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=414}} Molland subsequently sued the other members and their estates to recoup his expenses plus a producer's royalty. He was awarded a partial settlement, as the judge stated the evidence against Molland was insufficient to justify a severe penalty, also noting that since both parties had conceded the original tapes were of poor quality, Molland's salvaging of them to a commercial level merited consideration.<ref name="LiveCDCourtCase">{{cite web|url=http://www.badfinger.jespervindberg.dk/lawsuit.html|title=Lawsuit – Badfinger Live: Day After Day CD|publisher=Jesper Vindberg|access-date=26 April 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904213825/http://www.badfinger.jespervindberg.dk/lawsuit.html|archive-date=4 September 2011}}</ref>

After the success of [[Mariah Carey]]'s recording of "Without You" in 1994, Molland and Gibbins collected an award from the [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers]] (ASCAP) in 1995, incurring the anger of the Ham and Evans families.<ref name="MikeGibbinsObit"/>

While in a 1988 readers poll for ''[[Goldmine (magazine)|Goldmine]]'' magazine, ''[[Straight Up (Badfinger album)|Straight Up]]'' (1971) ranked as the most-requested CD release among out-of-print albums, the album made it to CD only in 1993. In 1995, Molland was paid to re-record the 10 most popular Badfinger songs.<ref name="JoeyMollandBiogStarCluster">{{cite web|url=http://www.starclustermusic.de/artists/badfinger/molland/bio/molland1.htm |title=Joey Molland |publisher=Star Cluster |access-date=24 April 2011}}</ref> These recordings were variously packaged in the market, often showing the original 1970s line-up of the band with little or no disclaiming information, despite Molland being the only original member of Badfinger who performed. A detailed biography of Badfinger by [[Dan Matovina]] was published in 1998, titled ''Without You: The Tragic Story of Badfinger''. The 2000 update of the book was accompanied by a CD of rare material and interviews.<ref name="Withoutyoubook">{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=Without+You%3A+The+Tragic+Story+Of+Badfinger&x=0&y=0 |title=Without You: The Tragic Story of Badfinger |publisher=Frances Glover Books |date = March 1998|access-date=27 April 2011}}</ref>

In 2000, a rough mix version of ''[[Head First (Badfinger album)|Head First]]'' (taken from an open-reel tape prepared by Apple engineer Phil McDonald in December 1974) was released on CD.<ref name="BadfingerAlbumsBillboard"/> (According to Dan Matovina, Warner Brothers could not locate the original master tapes for remixing at that time, but they were eventually found about 10 years later.) In 2002, Gibbins released a two-disc set of a Badfinger performance recorded in Indiana, on 19 October 1982, which had been captured on a basic cassette recorder, which was initially (and inaccurately) titled ''Live 83 – DBA-BFR''. The band at that time had consisted of Evans, Gibbins, Jackson, Kailing and Dacus.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://badfingerlinks.bravepages.com/dba-bfr.html |title=Interview with remix engineer Kevin McElligott, Feb. 2002 |access-date=23 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331010257/http://badfingerlinks.bravepages.com/dba-bfr.html |archive-date=31 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2003, and again in 2006, two separate CDs of related Apple Publishing music, ''94 Baker Street'',<ref name="94BakerStreet">{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0000BZYRA|title=94 Baker Street: The Pop Psych Sounds of the Apple Era 67–69|website=Amazon UK |date=20 October 2003|access-date=26 April 2011}}</ref> and ''An Apple a Day'', were released.<ref name="AnAppleaDay">{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000EMTHJE |title=An Apple a Day|publisher=Rpm |date=10 April 2006|access-date=26 April 2011}}</ref> The CDs contain nine songs by the Iveys. In 2008, another CD of Apple-related songs, ''Treacle Toffee World: Further Adventures into the Pop Psych Sounds from the Apple Era 1967–1969'', included two more Iveys demos.<ref name="TreacleToffeeWorld">{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001FNMVM6|title=Treacle Toffee World: Further Adventures Into the Pop Psych Sounds from the Apple Era 1967–1969|publisher=Rpm|date=27 October 2008|access-date=26 April 2011}}</ref>

By 2013, the issue of royalty payments had been resolved in court. The main songwriter receives 32 percent of publishing royalties and 25 percent of [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|ASCAP]] royalties. The other band members and Collins share the rest. Revenue from album sales is shared equally with 20% going to each member as well as Collins. In 1994, the year in which Mariah Carey covered the song "Without You", the royalties for Ham's estate spiked up to US$500,000.<ref name=Bloomberg>{{cite news|last1=Suddath|first1=Claire|title=Breaking Badfinger: Who's Getting the Baby Blue Money?|url=http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-04/breaking-badfinger-whos-gets-the-baby-blue-money|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004124905/http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-04/breaking-badfinger-whos-gets-the-baby-blue-money|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 October 2013|access-date=20 June 2014|work=Bloomberg Businessweek|date=4 October 2013}}</ref>