Nightflight (Budgie album)

Nightflight

Studio album by Budgie

Released

October 1981

Genre

Hard rock, heavy metal

Length

32:36

Label

RCA

Producer

Don Smith

Budgie chronology

Power Supply
(1980)

Nightflight
(1981)

Deliver Us from Evil
(1982)

Nightflight is Budgie's ninth album, released in October 1981 on RCA Records. A remastered version, with two live tracks from 1981, was released in 2013. The illustration on the cover is by Derek Riggs.^[1]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Burke Shelley and John Thomas.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"I Turned to Stone"	6:11
2.	"Keeping a Rendezvous"	3:45
3.	"Reaper of the Glory"	3:50
4.	"She Used Me Up"	3:17

Side two
No.	Title	Length
5.	"Don't Lay Down and Die"	3:35
6.	"Apparatus"	2:52
7.	"Superstar"	3:28
8.	"Change Your Ways"	4:22
9.	"Untitled Lullaby"	1:16

2013 Remaster Bonus Tracks
No.	Title	Length
10.	"She Used Me Up" (live, 1981)	3:03
11.	"Superstar" (live, 1981)	3:55

Personnel

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

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1981	UK Albums Chart^[3]	68

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1981	"Keeping a Rendezvous"	UK Singles Chart^[4]	71

References

↑ http://derek.server311.com/riggsart/Pages/budgie.dir/budgiefront.html
↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Budgie: Nightflight" at AllMusic. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
↑ "Nightflight Chart Stats". Chart Stats.com. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
↑ "Keeping a Rendezvous Chart Stats". Chart Stats.com. Retrieved 2012-01-11.

Budgie

Burke Shelley Steve Williams Craig Goldy Tony Bourge Ray Phillips Pete Boot Rob Kendrick John "Big" Thomas Duncan Mackay Jim Simpson Robert "Congo" Jones Andy Hart Simon Lees

Studio albums	Budgie Squawk Never Turn Your Back on a Friend In for the Kill! Bandolier If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules Impeckable Power Supply Nightflight Deliver Us from Evil You're All Living in Cuckooland

Live albums	Heavier Than Air – Rarest Eggs We Came, We Saw... Life in San Antonio Radio Sessions 1974 & 1978 The BBC Recordings

Compilations	Best of Budgie (1975) Best of Budgie (1981) An Ecstasy of Fumbling – The Definitive Anthology Best of Budgie (1997) The Last Stage

Miscellaneous	The Extreem – From Out of the Sky 6 Ton Budgie Budgie and Beyond Ornithology v.1 Booty's B – Sides The Battle of My Mind

EPs & Singles	"Crash Course in Brain Surgery"/"Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman" "Whiskey River"/"Guts" "Whiskey River"/"Stranded" "Zoom Club" (Edit)/"Wondering What Everyone Knows" "I Ain't No Mountain"/"Honey" "Smile Boy Smile"/"All at Sea" If Swallowed Do Not Induce Vomiting "Crime Against the World"/"Hellbender" "Keeping a Rendezvous"/"Apparatus" "I Turned to Stone (Part 1)"/"I Turned to Stone (Part 2)" "Bored with Russia"/"Don't Cry"