Had Badfinger chosen to release “Without You” as a single, maybe they’d be the ones most closely associated with the song. Or had Nilsson not heard it at a party and taken a liking to it (initially ...

More, conventional music-critic wisdom (yawn) has long said that Nilsson’s famously blown voice ruined his post-1973 albums. That just ain’t true. Sure, Nilsson hedonistically trashed for good his ...