Well, here's a DIFFERENT story from a youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTluGUww7TU
Eric Clapton and George Harrison were co-writing the music and lyrics. GH had written the word "bridge" on the page (as mrfisher said, a musical "bridge" section). Clapton was looking at the page upside down and misread "bridge" as "badge" and started laughing, "What is Badge?" and they ended up calling the song "Badge."
Posted By: mrfisher
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When Clapton ((?) was composing the song, he intended to write the word "bridge" over the middle section of the song, which is a technical term songwriter's use for that part of the song.
However, owing to his bad handwriting, the word was taken as "badge", and was thought that was the intended title of the song.
The rest is history.
This according to a DJ at a local radio station, FWIW.
If you don't like the youtube version of the story, you can retreat to a White Room With Black Curtains Near The Station, put some Cream in The Coffee Song and Dance the Night Away. You have to admit: Those Were the Days!
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EDIT: Here's the wikipedia entry, quoting George Harrison!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badge_(song) " ... "I helped Eric write "Badge" you know. Each of them had to come up with a song for that Goodbye Cream album and Eric didn't have his written. We were working across from each other and I was writing the lyrics down and we came to the middle part so I wrote 'Bridge.' Eric read it upside down and cracked up laughing – 'What's BADGE?' he said. After that, Ringo [Starr] walked in drunk and gave us that line about the swans living in the park." ... "
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I repeat myself and still say, "Those Were the Days."
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