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'''Budgie''' were a [[Wales|Welsh]] [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band from [[Cardiff]]. They are described by author Garry Sharpe-Young as one of the earliest heavy metal bands and a seminal influence to many acts of that scene,<ref name="Sharpe-Young, Garry 2007, p. 30">Sharpe-Young, Garry (2007), p. 30</ref> with fast, heavy rock (an influence on the [[new wave of British heavy metal]] (NWOBHM) and acts such as [[Metallica]]<ref name="roadrunnerrecords.com">[http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/Blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=110106] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206055645/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/Blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=110106|date=6 December 2008}}</ref> being played as early as 1971.<ref>Album: Budgie, Track: Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman</ref> The band has been noted as "among the heaviest metal of its day".<ref name=Crocker>[[#refCrocker1993|Crocker 1993]], p. 106 "Still recording into the eighties, Budgie was among the heaviest metal of its day."</ref>
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