Welsh trio Budgie may not have been as successful as Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin, but they influenced everyone from ...

Along the way, Budgie also won fans among their fellow rockers. The band opened for Ozzy Osbourne during the European dates of his Blizzard of Ozz tour in 1980.

Vocalist-bassist Burke Shelley of the groundbreaking Welsh hard rock band Budgie has died at age 71, according to a Facebook post from his daughter Ela. While largely regarded as a cult phenomenon ...

Incidentally, Budgie cites Siouxsie and the Banshees’ own fourth album, 1981’s World War I-inspired Juju — with its bass-driven “undercurrent of menace” that he says permeates and ...