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As Swansea finally acknowledges Badfinger lead singer Peter Ham with blue plaque, his biographer looks back on extraordinary story of 1970s pop pioneers whose frontmen both committed suicide after being swindled by their record firm. Watch clip of their hit that made Mariah Carey famous, Without You:
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