Billy Bragg
Musician
1957-12-20
Billy Bragg is an English singer-songwriter and activist known for blending folk and punk influences with political songwriting.
Books by Billy Bragg
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Roots, radicals and rockers
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The Progressive Patriot
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A lover sings
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Quotes by Billy Bragg
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There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.
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Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
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My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.
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Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.
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In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.
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Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.
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