Head First by Badfinger

Head First is the final studio album to be released by British rock band Badfinger, released on November 14, 2000, but recorded 26 years earlier in December 1974 -- January 1975, at the Beatles' Apple Studios in London, although it was not released at the time. Originally intended to be Badfinger's eighth album (and third album under its six-album contract with Warner Bros. Records), the recordings were shelved when legal difficulties erupted between the band and WB that year, and the version that was finally released (as Badfinger's tenth studio album) was a rough mix of the album made in 1975 by Phil McDonald, one of the recording engineers at Apple Studios. The cover art for the album is a lion roaring.