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Sparkie Williams (1954–1962) was a talking budgie who had a repertoire of more than 500 words and eight nursery rhymes, becoming a national celebrity after fronting an advertising campaign for Capern's bird seed, and making a record which sold 20,000 copies. [1] [2] After he died, he was stuffed and put on show at Newcastle's Hancock Museum. [3]
The single "Miss the Girl" which peaked at number 21 in the UK chart, took its inspiration from the book Crash by J. G. Ballard. Shortly after its exit from the charts, a follow-up, "Right Now", was recorded, a song that was initially performed by Mel Tormé. The Creatures revamped it by adding a brass section, and it became their most ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 January 2025. Small, long-tailed, seed-eating parakeet Budgerigar Temporal range: Pliocene–Holocene Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N Blue cere indicates male Flaking brown cere indicates female in breeding condition Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain ...
Impeckable is the seventh album by the Welsh heavy metal band Budgie. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was released in February 1978 on A&M Records . Guitarist Tony Bourge left the band after the album was released.
An eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) singing, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, United States Blackbird song. Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs.In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear.
Budgie was the sound engineer of the album, and he mixed it near Toulouse before its release in 2003. After recording four studio albums as the Creatures, Budgie's final performance with Siouxsie (featuring Eto and the Millennia Ensemble) was filmed in 2004 at the Royal Festival Hall in London for the DVD Dreamshow. This was Budgie's last ...
Budgie explained the song "Manchild": "It's a story based in Colombia before the drugs cartel, it's about a small child caught up in a feud, this vendetta between his village and another rival village. In a minor way it is all about drug trafficking, but ends with the stronger village wiping out the whole male population of the other village ...
Musicologists such as Matthew Head and Suzannah Clark believe that birdsong has had a large though admittedly unquantifiable influence on the development of music. [2] [3] Birdsong has influenced composers in several ways: they can be inspired by birdsong; [4] they can intentionally imitate bird song in a composition; [4] they can incorporate recordings of birds into their works; [5] or they ...