Badfinger - Day After Day (Official Music Video)

In an era where limp-wristed troubadours croon eco-dirges on green-screen sets, as if guilt is the only instrument they can strum, Badfinger reemerges as a bracing corrective. These sons of Swansea didn’t posture in pixelated playgrounds—they tramped real streams, fields, and woods, hammering out folk-flavored power pop on the granite of British grit. Their music marched on merit, not on rainbow-stamped regret.

This Rumble resurrection revives the original promotional film for “Day After Day,” that luminous jewel from 1971’s Straight Up. Here Pete Ham, Joey Molland, Tom Evans, and Mike Gibbins wander meadows and brooks, a pastoral tableau that embodies a pre-PC paradise of honest beauty. No pyrotechnics, no posturing—just music rooted in life’s soil.

Pete Ham penned it as a tender hymn to enduring love amid the ache of solitude, its rise to glory fueled by George Harrison’s slide guitar duet with Ham and Leon Russell pounding the piano. Harrison ducked off for Bangladesh, leaving Todd Rundgren to shape the mix into a gleaming gem. The result? Billboard No. 4, U.K. No. 10, and gold by spring ’72. It endures because it deserves to—no gimmicks, no grievance-mongering.

At three wistful minutes, “Day After Day” echoes the Beatles without imitating them, a reminder of what happens when sincerity trumps shtick. Ironically, the band first balked at live performances, wary of reproducing overdubs, until touring finally broke that hesitation. The film itself—likely shot in the lush British countryside—reflects the song’s spirit with plainspoken elegance.

But genius carries scars. Ham, swindled by the predatory Stan Polley, hanged himself at 27 in 1975, branding the man a “soulless bastard” in his suicide note. Evans followed the same tragic path in ’83. Badfinger’s story reminds us: talent can triumph on tape, but in the corrupt carnival of the industry, the honest often get devoured by liars in tailored suits.

Here lies the contrast: no hollow sermons, no progressive pandering—just timeless craftsmanship that shames today’s manufactured mush. Watch it on Rumble, let the fire of tradition burn, and let Badfinger’s “Day After Day” thunder like a hammer blow against the hollow spectacle of modern mediocrity.