Wish You Were Here (Badfinger album)

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Wish You Were Here

Studio album by Badfinger
Released	1974
Recorded	1974, Caribou Ranch, Nederland, CO
Genre	Power pop
Length	?
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer(s)	Chris Thomas
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Badfinger chronology
Badfinger (1974)	Wish You Were Here (1974)	Airwaves (1979)

Wish You Were Here is an album by rock band Badfinger. It was recorded in the spring of 1974 at Colorado's Caribou Ranch and released in November of that year on Warner Bros. Records. It was the second and last album the band released on the WB label.

Although the album received positive reviews in music magazine Rolling Stone upon its release, it was pulled out of record stores in 1975 because of a lawsuit between the record label and Badfinger's management. Considered to be one of the strongest entries by the group, by both fans and critics alike, the album's abbreviated manufacturing run and short tenure on the market has made the original LP relatively rare. Despite being recalled, the album had time enough to chart, peaking at #148, in the US. In the 1990s it was re-released in CD format in Japan and Germany only, making Wish You Were Here difficult to find in this format as well. Most of the tracks, however, have been released on other Badfinger compilations.

Wish You Were Here was Badfinger's fifth and final album from core band members Pete Ham, Joey Molland, Tom Evans and Mike Gibbins. Molland resigned from the band shortly after the LP was released, and Ham died approximately six months later.

Although the next Badfinger album to be released in series is Airwaves in 1979, Ham, Evans, Gibbins and keyboardist Bob Jackson recorded an album titled Head First in December 1974. This album, however, was not released until 2000.