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Budgie may refer to: Arts * ''Budgie'' (album), the debut album by the Welsh heavy metal band Budgie * Budgie (band), a Welsh heavy metal band from Cardiff * Budgie (musician) (born 1957), English drummer * ''Budgie'' (TV series), a British television series starring popstar Adam Faith * '' Budgie the Little Helicopter'', a British animated television series Other * Budgerigar (also budgie), a small, long-tailed, seed-eating parrot * Budgie (desktop environment), a desktop environment that currently uses GNOME technologies * Budgie Toys Morris & Stone, Ltd., which later changed its name to the more well-known Budgie Toys, was a British die-cast toy distributor turned manufacturer, based in London. The company first specialised in horse-drawn carriages and coaches. It later made ...

Budgie (album)
''Budgie'' is the debut album by the Welsh heavy metal band Budgie. It was released on July 30, 1971 through MCA Records. The US version on Kapp Records includes "Crash Course in Brain Surgery", originally released as a single and covered by Metallica on their 1987 EP ''The $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-Revisited''. "Homicidal Suicidal" has also been covered by the Seattle grunge band Soundgarden. Canadian band Thrush Hermit covered "Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman" on the album ''All Technology Aside'', included on the 2010 ''The Complete Recordings'' box set. Reception '' Sounds'' criticized the album as being somewhat nondescript, but praised it for having "a lot of good natured foot-tapping music" and concluded "I certainly find it infinitely preferable to Black Sabbath, and I have the feeling that Budgie might develop into something a lot more interesting." In a brief retrospective review, AllMusic declared that "For those seriously interested in metal's develop ...
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Budgie (band)
Budgie were a Welsh heavy metal music, heavy metal band from Cardiff. The band formed in 1967, and the following year recorded a demo; in 1971, their first album (of blues-oriented hard rock), produced by Rodger Bain, was released by MCA Records, MCA. The band, a classic power trio with the occasional keyboard player, released ten albums, with MCA, A&M Records, A&M, and RCA Records, RCS, between 1971 and 1982, attracting a fair number of fans and achieving modest commercial success. Budgie were one of the earliest heavy metal bands, and according to Garry Sharpe-Young they were a seminal influence to many acts of that scene,Sharpe-Young, Garry (2007), p. 30 particularly the so-called new wave of British heavy metal, and later acts such as Metallica.
The band has been noted as "among ...
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