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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]
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.
In May, Siouxsie and Budgie appeared on British Television show "Later With Jools Holland" with two bass players on their side to perform live two other songs "Disconnected" and "Prettiest Thing" from the forthcoming album. [24] During that period, Siouxsie and Budgie created their own label, Sioux Records, and became an independent act.
Power Supply is the eighth album by the Welsh heavy metal power trio, Budgie, released in October 1980 on Active Records, a sublabel of RCA Records (which was the distributor of A&M Records — Budgie's previous label — at the time).
The second season of the Curious Creatures podcast started in March 2022, with a new episode uploaded every week. [21] On a suggestion of Anohni who admired the percussion work on the Creatures' records, [22] Budgie contributed to Hercules and Love Affair's album In Amber: they contacted him "to derail some of the arrangements for more impact ...
When former Budgie guitarist Tony Bourge joined the band in the early 1980s, they became known as simply Woman. In 1982 he rejoined Bourge and formed Tredegar . In the 1990s, Phillips founded another band, Six Ton Budgie, alongside his son Justin Phillips on guitar and ex-Tredegar bassist Tom Prince on bass.
The Best of Budgie was the fourth compilation album by Welsh rock band Budgie, released in 1997. The compilation contained tracks only from the third , fourth and fifth studio albums, much like the 1975 compilation of the same name .
We Came, We Saw... is an album of compiled live tracks by the Welsh rock band Budgie, collected from their performances at the Reading Festival in 1980 and 1982, with an emphasis on songs released during that period rather than the band's older, more well-known work. Heavier Than Air - Rarest Eggs is a companion to this album.