Editing Badfinger (section)

===Initial success===
"Come and Get It" was released as a single in December 1969 in the UK, and January 1970 in the US. Selling more than a million copies worldwide,{{sfn|Murrells|1984|p=300}} it reached Top Ten throughout the world: #7 on the US ''Billboard'' chart on 18 April 1970,{{sfn|Crouse|2000|p=183}}<ref name="BadfingerChartHistoryBillboard"/> and #4 in the UK.{{sfn|Ingham|2003|p=387}}  Because the Iveys' ''Maybe Tomorrow'' album had been released in only a few markets, the band's three songs from ''The Magic Christian'' soundtrack album were combined with other, older Iveys tracks (including both of the Iveys' singles and five other songs from ''Maybe Tomorrow'') and then released as Badfinger's first album ''[[Magic Christian Music]]'' (1970).<ref name="BadfingerAlbumsBillboard">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/badfinger/discography/albums/4027?sort=date|title=Badfinger Albums|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=21 April 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110416044749/http://www.billboard.com/| archive-date= 16 April 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> The album peaked at #55 on the ''Billboard'' album chart in the US.{{sfn|Matovina|2000|p=81}}  In addition, Derek Taylor commissioned Les Smithers to photograph the band in March 1970. His photograph has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery.<ref>[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp143828/pete-ham Link to Smithers's photograph.]</ref>

New recording sessions for Badfinger also commenced in March 1970, with Mal Evans producing.<ref name="BadfingerApple">{{cite web|url=http://www.badfingersite.com/history-of-badfinger/apple-records|title=Apple Records|publisher=Badfinger|access-date=27 April 2011|archive-date=16 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216235156/http://www.badfingersite.com/history-of-badfinger/apple-records/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Two songs were completed, including "No Matter What", which was rejected by Apple as a potential single.<ref name="BadfingerApple"/> Beatles engineer [[Geoff Emerick]] then took over as producer and the band completed its second album in July 1970.<ref name="AppleRecordsTopFive">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/alternate-take/apple-records-top-five-albums-20100720|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004035947/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/alternate-take/apple-records-top-five-albums-20100720|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 October 2013|title=Apple Records' Top Five Albums |first=David |last=Fricke|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=21 April 2011}}</ref> During the recordings, the band were sent to Hawaii on 4 June, to appear at a Capitol/Apple Records convention, and then flew to Italy to play concerts in Rome.{{sfn|Badman|2001|p=10}} ''[[No Dice]]'' was released in the US in late 1970, peaking at #28 on the ''Billboard'' album chart.<ref name="BadfingerAlbumsBillboard"/> The Mal Evans-produced track "No Matter What", as re-mixed by Emerick, was finally released as a single,{{sfn|Crouse|2000|p=183}} and reached numerous Top Ten charts around the world—peaking at #8 in the US and #5 in the UK.<ref name="BadfingerApple"/> An Emerick-produced album track from ''No Dice'' titled "[[Without You (Badfinger song)|Without You]]" became even more successful after [[Harry Nilsson]] covered the song in 1972; his version became an international hit, reaching #1 on ''Billboard'' in the US, and also spending five weeks at the top of the UK chart.{{sfn|Buckley|2003|p=vii}} The song began as a merger of two separate songs, with the verses penned by Ham and the chorus penned by Evans. The song won Ham and Evans the 1972 [[Ivor Novello]] award for "Song of the Year".<ref name="PeteHamBiogOriginalBadfinger">{{cite web|url=http://www.badfingersite.com/badfinger-bios/pete-ham|title=Pete Ham Biography|publisher=Badfinger 2011|access-date=21 April 2011|archive-date=16 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216234237/http://www.badfingersite.com/badfinger-bios/pete-ham/|url-status=dead}}</ref>