On 29 September 1986, Iron Maiden released Somewhere in Time, and the sleeve promised a machine age: a cyborg Eddie, a neon city, and guitar synthesizers credited on the record for the first time in the band’s career. The detail worth keeping is a smaller one. The song that started life on a synthesizer is […]
There is a particular kind of band that history files under "influence" rather than "fame," and few earned that footnote more thoroughly than Budgie. Three men from Cardiff, a name borrowed from a pet shop, and a catalogue of riffs that turned up, decades later, on multi-platinum records made by people who were toddl
