The Last Stage (album)

The Last Stage is a compilation of unreleased Budgie 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, a follow-up that never saw the light of day. The track "Beautiful Lies" was supposedly meant to be on the album and unfortunately it never made it to The Last Stage, but you can still get the song 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. However, most (if not all) of the tracks would be considered very good bootleg quality or better.

Track listing

1. "Love Is When You Love" - 3:25
2. "House of a Sinner" - 4:00
3. "Same Old Sad Affair" - 3:26
4. "Signed Your Own Fate" - 3:51
5. "Hard Luck" - 3:44
6. "Living with Another Man" - 3:25
7. "You Ain't Got Love" - 3:14
8. "Renegade" - 3:48
9. "Sweet Fast Talker" - 4:25
10. "Wait Till Tomorrow" - 4:14
11. "Rock Your Blood" - 3:55
12. "Nutbush City Limits" - 3:17 (Ike & Tina Turner cover)
13. "Can't Get Up in the Morning" - 4:29
14. "Heaven in Your Eyes" - 3:14
15. "Picture on a Screen" - 5:19
16. "Victim" - 3:46

Personnel

Band members

• Burke Shelley - vocals, bass
• John Thomas - guitar
• Steve Williams - drums

Additional musicians

• Rob Kendrick - guitar and vocals on track 13

Production

• Dave Charles, Simon Dawson, Pat Moran - engineers
• Mike Brown, Robert M. Corich - remastering engineers

References