“No Matter What” by Badfinger

"No Matter What" is Badfinger at their punchiest, the Pete Ham song from their 1970 album No Dice that he wrote, sang and saw through to the finish with Mal Evans producing. It started as a slow acoustic demo, and the band first recorded it at that same easy pace in April 1970. A month later they went back into EMI Studios, sped it up and roughed it up, and that's the version that made the album and the single.

Joey Molland remembered the band working the arrangement out on the spot with Geoff Emerick engineering: the little guitar lines first, then the harmonies, the whole record done in an hour or two. It ends with a slide guitar solo that sings as sweetly as Ham does. Apple Records released it, and "Day After Day" came next.

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