Quick Facts
| Author | Budgie |
| Narrator | Budgie |
| Runtime | 10h41m |
| Published | July 17, 2025 |
| Rating | 4.8 / 5 (3 ratings) |
| Categories | Arts & Entertainment, Art, Music, Biographies & Memoirs |
| Format | Audiobook (Digital) |
| Platform | Audible |
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As a member of Big in Japan, The Slits and, most famously, Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Creatures, 'Budgie' was an era-defining drummer in the much-mythologised post punk scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. But before he was Budgie, Peter Clarke was a boy growing up in working class St...
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