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Buckethead

Buckethead is the stage persona of American guitarist Brian Patrick Carroll (born 1969, Los Angeles), who performs masked with an inverted KFC bucket on his head; known for 300-plus albums, Death Cube K, Praxis, and the Chinese Democracy-era Guns N' Roses.

Buckethead discography

Buckethead discography: output of American guitarist Brian Patrick Carroll (b. 1969), covering 31 main solo albums from Bucketheadland (1992), the numbered Pike mini-album series begun 2011 and reaching past Pike 800, the Death Cube K alias, and collaborations with Praxis, Guns N' Roses, and others.

Buckeye (novel)

Buckeye, Patrick Ryan's 2025 Random House/Bloomsbury multigenerational WWII-and-Vietnam home-front novel set in fictional Bonhomie, Ohio; NYT bestseller, Read With Jenna pick, Ohio Book Award finalist.

Buckfast Tonic Wine

Buckfast Tonic Wine, or Buckie, is a 15% ABV caffeinated fortified wine-based drink made by Benedictine monks at Buckfast Abbey, Devon, since 1897 and distributed by J. Chandler & Co, famous in Scotland.

Bucking Fastard

Bucking Fastard is a 2026 Werner Herzog drama starring Kate and Rooney Mara as sisters Jean and Joan Holbrooke who speak in unison, premiered in competition at the 83rd Venice Film Festival on 3 September 2026, inspired by the Chaplin twins.

Buckingham Nicks

Buckingham Nicks was an American rock duo formed by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, who released one album in 1973, shortly before both joined Fleetwood Mac.

Buckow Elegies

The Buckow Elegies (Buckower Elegien) are a cycle of short poems by Bertolt Brecht, written in 1953 at his country house in Buckow in reaction to the East German uprising.

Bucks Fizz

Bucks Fizz, British pop group formed January 1981 for Eurovision; won the 1981 contest in Dublin with 'Making Your Mind Up' and its skirt-rip routine; three UK No.1s; later split into Bobby G's Bucks Fizz and The Fizz.

Buckwild (TV series)

Buckwild was a 2013 MTV reality series, the "Jersey Shore of Appalachia," following nine young adults in Sissonville, West Virginia; renewed after 3 million viewers per episode, then canceled after cast member Shain Gandee's death.

Bucky Barnes

Bucky Barnes (James Buchanan Barnes), aka the Winter Soldier, is Marvel's Captain America sidekick created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), killed off in 1960s continuity, and revived by Ed Brubaker in 2005 as a brainwashed Soviet assassin, later Captain America and an MCU character played by Sebastian Stan.

Bucky Barnes (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Bucky Barnes, also the Winter Soldier, is the MCU character played by Sebastian Stan since 2011: Steve Rogers's best friend, brainwashed by HYDRA into an assassin, later an Avenger and Thunderbolts member.

Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star

Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star is a 2011 American comedy starring Nick Swardson as an Iowa grocery bagger who moves to Hollywood to become an adult film star.

Bud Abbott

Bud Abbott (William Alexander Abbott, 1895-1974), American comedian, straight man of the Abbott and Costello comedy team with Lou Costello; teamed 1936, 36 films, "Who's on First?", died broke after IRS audit.

Bud Collyer

Bud Collyer (Clayton Johnson Heermance Jr., 1908–1969), American radio actor and game-show host; first voice of Superman and Clark Kent (1940s radio, Fleischer cartoons, 1960s TV animation) and original host of Beat the Clock and To Tell the Truth.

Bud Cort

Bud Cort (Walter Edward Cox, 1948-2026), American actor best known as Harold in Hal Ashby's 1971 cult classic Harold and Maude and the title role in Robert Altman's Brewster McCloud; also appeared in M*A*S*H, Heat, Dogma, and The Life Aquatic.

Bud Gaugh

Floyd "Bud" Gaugh (born 1967) is the American drummer and founding member of ska-punk band Sublime, later of Long Beach Dub Allstars, Eyes Adrift, and Sublime with Rome; he rejoined Sublime with Jakob Nowell in 2023.

Bud Luckey

Bud Luckey (1934–2018), American animator and Pixar's fifth animator, designed Woody for Toy Story, created Sesame Street counting films as Donnie Budd, and directed and voiced the Oscar-nominated short Boundin'; he also voiced Rick Dicker, Chuckles, and Eeyore.

Bud Powell

Bud Powell (Earl Rudolph Powell, 1924–1966), American bebop pianist and composer from Harlem who translated Charlie Parker's horn language to the piano; father of modern jazz piano, composer of "Tempus Fugit" and "Un Poco Loco" era classics.

Bud Spencer

Bud Spencer (Carlo Pedersoli, 1929-2016), Italian actor and Olympic swimmer from Naples; starred with Terence Hill from God Forgives... I Don't (1967) to Botte di Natale, created Piedone, and was the first Italian under one minute for 100 m freestyle.

Bud Tingwell

Charles 'Bud' Tingwell (1923-2009), Australian actor, director and writer; RAAF reconnaissance pilot, star of Emergency Ward 10, Homicide, Breaker Morant, and The Castle; Logies Hall of Fame 1994, AM 1999.

Bud, Not Buddy

Bud, Not Buddy is a 1999 children's historical fiction novel by Christopher Paul Curtis, set in 1936 Flint, Michigan, following orphan Bud Caldwell's search for bandleader Herman E. Calloway; it won the 2000 Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award.

Buda halála

Buda halála (The Death of Buda) is a Hungarian narrative epic in twelve cantos by János Arany, written 1862–1863 and published in Pest in 1864.

Budae-jjigae (부대찌개)

Budae-jjigae (부대찌개), also spelled boodae chigae, is Korean army base stew from 1960s Uijeongbu, combining US military surplus Spam, hot dogs, and cheese with kimchi, tofu, and ramen; now a popular comfort food.

Budapest (song)

Budapest (song): 2013 song by English singer-songwriter George Ezra, co-written with Joel Pott, from Did You Hear the Rain? and Wanted on Voyage. UK no. 3, number one in Austria, New Zealand, and Slovenia; written after Ezra missed his train to Budapest.

Budapeste

Budapeste is a 2003 novel by Brazilian writer Chico Buarque, his third, following ghostwriter José Costa, divided between Rio de Janeiro and Budapest and two languages; it won the Prêmio Jabuti.

Buddah Records

Buddah Records, later Buddha Records, a 1967 New York independent label founded by Art Kass off Kama Sutra, led by Neil Bogart; known for bubblegum pop, Gladys Knight & the Pips, and Super Fly.

Buddenbrooks

Buddenbrooks. Verfall einer Familie is the first novel of Thomas Mann, published in 1901, following four generations of a wealthy Lübeck merchant family to extinction; it won Mann the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Buddha Bar compilation albums

Buddha Bar compilation albums: chillout/lounge series from the Paris Buddha-Bar of Raymond Visan and Claude Challe, first issued 1999 on George V Records, two discs (Dinner and Party), mixed by Challe, Ravin, Visan, and Popat.

Buddha from Sarnath

The Buddha from Sarnath refers to Gupta-period Buddha images carved in pale Chunar sandstone at Sarnath near Varanasi from the 4th to 6th century CE.

Buddha in a Traffic Jam

Buddha in a Traffic Jam is a 2016 Indian political thriller written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri, starring Arunoday Singh, Anupam Kher, Mahie Gill, and Pallavi Joshi. Released 13 May 2016, it flopped with about ₹28.75 lakh nett in India and drew largely negative reviews.