Their manager, Stan Polley, swindled the band out of money and shortly after Pete Ham committed suicide, blaming Polley. A second band member committed suicide years later.
Only one member alive today, Joey Molland.
At one time in the eighties the guy was laying carpet in LA. You couldn’t listen to the radio for five minutes from 1970 through 1972 without hearing these guys. I don’t know how he coped.