Its chorus included "I can't live, if living is without you, I can't live, I can't give any more." And so the merging of the two songs, Ham and Evans created the hit Ham's verse, "warm, sweet, sentimental" and Evans' chorus, "intense, dramatic, heartbreaking." īoth Ham and Evans said they did not consider the song to have much potential at the time Badfinger recorded it, and the track was slotted to close the first side of their 1970 album No Dice. I can't live without her." He flew to Bonn to find her – he wrote a song called "I Can't Live". One evening he went to her friend Karen and told Karen, "She's left me. Įvans' relationship with his future wife Marianne influenced his lyrics: She told him, "Go into the studio, I'm fine about it." He replied, "Your mouth is smiling, but your eyes are sad." The song Ham wrote that night was called "If it's Love" and has the verse "Well I can't forget tomorrow, when I think of all my sorrow, I had you there but then I let you go, and now it's only fair that I should let you know. But just as they were leaving Tom Evans said he had an idea for a song – Ham said, "Not tonight, I've promised Bev." But she thought he would be wondering if he had done the right thing later, if he went out. One evening, in the midst of the parties, songwriting, touring, in Golders Green, Ham and his girlfriend Beverly Tucker were about to go out for the evening. At the time of writing, the band shared residence with the Mojos at 7 Park Avenue in Golders Green. Pete Ham wrote a song originally titled "If It's Love", but it had lacked a strong chorus. Badfinger original įirst recorded by the rock group Badfinger, the song was composed by two of its members. In 1972, writers Ham and Evans received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. Paul McCartney once described the ballad as "the killer song of all time".
The Nilsson version was included in 2021's Rolling Stone 's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Sheppard (1983) and Mariah Carey (1994) became international best-sellers. The power ballad has been recorded by over 180 artists, and versions released as singles by Harry Nilsson (1971), T. " Without You" is a song written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of British rock group Badfinger, and first released on their 1970 album No Dice.
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