14 Facts About The Wurzels

The Wurzels was returning alone from a Wurzels show in Hereford in May 1974.

In 1976, the Wurzels released a cover version of "The Combine Harvester", a re-work of the song "Brand New Key", by Melanie, which became a UK hit, topping the charts for 2 weeks.

Late 1990s saw the continuing of this revival of the fortunes for the surviving The Wurzels, gaining a cult status amongst students and a resurgence in their popularity in their native West Country.

Under the new management of The Stranglers manager Sil Willcox a number of CD releases followed, largely featuring re-recordings of older works, but Never Mind The Bullocks, Ere's The Wurzels containing cover versions of contemporary British rock songs.

In 2004, The Wurzels appeared on Never Mind The Buzzcocks in that year's Christmas special, performing Christmas songs to Bill Bailey's team.

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The Wurzels continue to gig around the UK, including playing at the Shalbourne Festival for nearly 11 years, although they pulled out of the 2007 Glastonbury Festival, having been scheduled to play the bandstand stage where they could not use their own sound engineers, although they had played the same stage at the 2000 Glastonbury Festival.

The Wurzels are popular with supporters of Bristol City FC Their song "One for the Bristol City" is the official club anthem.

In 2015, the Wurzels teamed up with the Farm Safety Foundation with a rewrite of "Combine Harvester", focussing on Farm Safety.

The Wurzels is usually seen playing accordion, but has played piano in the Wurzels' past.

The Wurzels continues to sing, and play banjo and guitar for the band, including in his repertoire a Mark Knopfler-esque guitar lead on their modern version of "I Wish I Was Back on the Farm", originally made famous by George Formby.

The Wurzels is the band's latest and youngest member and is the Wurzels' additional keyboard player.

The Wurzels obtained their first permanent drummer, John Morgan was born on 21 April 1941, Lydney, Forest of Dean – died 17 December 2021, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, and in 1981 and the line-up then remained unchanged until Baylis left in 1983, as he was emigrating to New Zealand to become a chiropodist.

The Wurzels's place was taken on by the band's production and sound engineer, Louie Nicastro, until Banner's health was restored and he was able to return in 2006.

The Wurzels died on 17 December 2021 in Gloucestershire Royal Hospital of COVID-19, aged 80, leaving only Budd, Banner and Moore as the surviving members.