Description

Published by: Your Books 2020
335 pages written in English
Written by: Chris Pike

Book, cd and a signed card. Card signed by Tony Bourge. Book signed by Chris Pike (RIP)

Original Budgie guitarist Tony Bourge’s autobiography is called Rocking Man – With An Axe To Grind; The Story Of Tony Bourge. The book draws on material from the first two Budgie books and from 15 hours of new interviews with the riff master. The book has 335 pages, 107,000 words and 375 images. It is printed in full colour on high-quality 130gsm satin art paper. But thats not all. The book also features a cd with 10 tracks wwritten and recorded by Tony Bourge: six from his 2013/14 digital releases (remastered for the cd by Tony’s son Kingsley) and four that are previously unreleased, including two recently recorded bluesy heavy rockers. The album then ends with two tracks that are tributes to Tony (and Burke Shelley), recorded by Janne Stark (guitars), Peter Svensson (drums) and Raven’s John Gallagher (bass and vocals). The book was penned by Chris Pike who sadly passed away in 2021.

Track listing:
1. The Robbery
2. Sailing
3. the Preacher
4. The Viking King
5. MyGrain
6. Stargazer
7. Do What You Do Do
8. Sleepy Time Boy
9. Bluestone
10. East Bound
11. Rocking Man – With An Axe To Grind-instrumental prequel
12. Rocking Man – With An Axe To Grind-vocal sequel