I was a "tween" when I first heard Badfinger. They were the obvious replacement for the disbanding Beatles and I was excited about them. "We don't need no stinking Beatles, we've got Badfinger".
Two suicides of band members and talk of organised crime within the management of the group brought these lofty ideas to an end.
I still enjoy their music and wonder what other Beatles fans of that period of time thought of the band. Did you think the Beatles were setting them up as their predecessors? Did the Beatles even care? Were the the execs at Apple just trying to maintain a chart topping band?
It seems to me that fame and fortune was handed to them on a silver platter. But they did have the talent to deserve it. They had emotional and management problems that brought them down.
I will leave a Wikipedia link and a You Tube link. Notice a young Kenny Rogers on the You Tube link. Ben

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badfinger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C53QAuOoSgc&feature=related

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=400209
http://guitar.answers.com/guitar/playing-a-right-handed-guitar-left-handed-upside-down
http://lefthandedguitarplayer.blogspot.com/