''The Last Stage'' is a compilation of unreleased
Budgie
Budgie may refer to:
Arts
* Budgie (album), ''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), ''Bu ...
tracks, mostly from the early-to-mid eighties. Many of these tracks were intended to be released on the follow-up to 1982's ''
Deliver Us from Evil'', an album that never saw the light of day. The track "Beautiful Lies" was supposedly meant to be included on the album but never made it. It was previously made available on the Budgie compilation album ''
An Ecstasy of Fumbling – The Definitive Anthology''.
The sound quality varies from track to track, as each song was at a different level of completion before it was scrapped.
Track listing
# "Love Is When You Love" - 3:25
# "House of a Sinner" - 4:00
# "Same Old Sad Affair" - 3:26
# "Signed Your Own Fate" - 3:51
# "Hard Luck" - 3:44
# "Living with Another Man" - 3:25
# "You Ain't Got Love" - 3:14
# "Renegade" - 3:48
# "Sweet Fast Talker" - 4:25
# "Wait till Tomorrow" - 4:14
# "Rock Your Blood" - 3:55
# "
Nutbush City Limits" - 3:17 (
Ike & Tina Turner cover)
# "Can't Get Up in the Morning" - 4:29
# "Heaven in Your Eyes" - 3:14
# "Picture on a Screen" - 5:19
# "Victim" - 3:46
Personnel
Band members
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Burke Shelley
John Burke Shelley (10 April 1950 – 10 January 2022) was a Welsh musician, best known as the lead vocalist and bassist of the rock band Budgie.
Musical career
In 1967, Cardiff-born Shelley co-founded the band Hills Contemporary Grass with ...
- vocals and bass
*John Thomas - guitar
*Steve Williams - drums
Additional musicians
*
Rob Kendrick
Trapeze were an English rock band from Cannock, Staffordshire. Formed in 1969, the band originally featured former The Montanas members John Jones (trumpet, vocals) and Terry Rowley (keyboards), and former Finders Keepers members Glenn Hughes ( ...
- guitar and vocals on track 13
Production
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Dave Charles
Dave Charles, also known as David Charles is a British drummer, recording engineer & record producer. He often appears under both names on the same album, e.g. Help Yourself's ''The Return of Ken Whaley'', where Dave Charles is credited with dru ...
, Simon Dawson, Pat Moran - engineers
*Mike Brown,
Robert M. Corich - remastering engineers
References
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Budgie (band) compilation albums
2004 compilation albums
Albums recorded at Rockfield Studios