NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON YOUR FRIENDS

Limited 180gm vinyl LP repressing of this album from the Welsh hard rock band. Never Turn Your Back On A Friend is Budgie's third album, released in June 1973. The album includes "Breadfan", one of the band's better known songs. Metallica recorded a cover version of "Breadfan" in 1987. The album cover was done by Roger Dean. The album has a more of a progressive rock quality to it than their previous two albums. Budgie 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, with fast, heavy rock. The band has been noted as "among the heaviest metal of its day".'