Issue No 98 | 01 June 2001 | |
Letters to the EditorPop and Politics - Where's Billy??
How can Mark Hebblewhite do a review of ideologically sound pop music without including the Bard from Barking Billy Bragg? Billy was a founder of Red Wedge in Great Britain in the 1980's which was an alliance of entertainment industry types (including Paul Weller from the Jam)formed to fight Thatcherism. Billy was a huge supporter of the Miners strikes in the UK and continues to write songs with a political message today. Billy has launched a tactical voting web site to encourage Labour and Liberal Democrat voters in his two nearest parliamentary constituencies, South Dorset and West Dorset, to agree to vote for each other's candidates in order to unseat the two Conservative MPs in the current general election. In 1990 Billy released an EP called The Internationale. The EP contained songs such as The Internationale , The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions and The Red Flag. Billy released an album in 1986 "Talking to the Taxman about Poetry" which contained the song 'Power in a Union'. There can be no discussion of ideology in music without Billy Bragg. Peter Rawsthorne
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