Joey Molland, who has died aged 77, was a guitarist and songwriter best known for his years with Badfinger, the band who were taken under the Beatles’ collective wing in the late 1960s and were ...

FILE – Ex-Badfinger guitarist Joey Molland strums a 1967 Epiphone Casino, while talking about the early years in Badfinger in his Shorewood, Minn. home, Monday, Sept. 10, 2001.

EDINA, Minn. (AP) -- Joey Molland, a guitarist with the Welsh pop-rock band Badfinger that was known for such 1970s hits as "No Matter What" and "Day After Day," has died at age 77.

The first of Badfinger’s three Top 10 hits, “Come and Get It,” which was recorded before Mr. Molland joined the band and released as a single in Britain in late 1969, was written by Mr ...