Ray Phillips, drummer with pioneering heavy metal band Budgie, recalled how Metallica’s cover of their song “Breadfan” saved him from financial disaster. The Welsh band released the original track on ...

“Before I started doing our ‘Curious Creatures’ podcast with Budgie, I was thinking about doing this other podcast,” says the Cure co-founder/drummer ...

Burke Shelley, singer and bassist of the hard rocking Welsh group Budgie, has died at the age of 71. "It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my father, John Burke Shelley. He passed ...

Arriving seven years and three studio albums into Budgie's career, May 1974's ‘In for the Kill' summed up the group's current state of mind. The album, though no match for the career-best offering ...

Welsh trio Budgie may not have been as successful as Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin, but they influenced everyone from Metallica and Iron Maiden to Soundgarden and Steve Albini. In 2004, helium-voiced ...

We’re sad to report that former Budgie guitarist John Thomas has passed away at age 63. As one of the earliest bands which inspired heavy metal, Welsh band Budgie is one of the genre’s most ...

A foul mouthed budgie has proved to be quite the online hit after a video of on one his expletive-filled rants was posted to Facebook. The cheeky bird perches on his owner's shoulder and has quite the ...

When a newly solo (and closely chaperoned) Ozzy Osbourne wanted to escape the eagle eyes of his tour ‘minders’, he knew there was one place they’d never think of seeking him out: hanging out with ...