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Billy Bragg to debut his choral version of 'Ode To Joy' in LA

The singer considers making a choral album

  • Aug 27, 2009

Billy Bragg, Emmylou Harris for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 9

Free event also features Marianne Faithfull, Chieftains and Tom Morello

  • Aug 27, 2009

Bill Bragg, Kate Nash and Get Cape perform reduced G20 protest set

Musicians play acoustic slots at Bank Of England protest

Billy Bragg: 'Why we have to take to the streets for G20 protest'

Singer-songwriter tells NME.COM why he's performing at 'Bank Of England Carnival' today (April 1)

Reverend And The Makers singer teams up with Billy Bragg

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly also perform for prison scheme in London

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Billy Bragg Pictures

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YouTube Billy Bragg Videos

Billy Bragg - Between The Wars

Billy Bragg - Between The Wars (02:44)

Billy Bragg playing "Between The Wars" on ToTP. Notice he's playing live, as opposed to miming to a backing track.

Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards

Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards (04:40)

From The Henry Rollins Show, 5/25/07

Billy Bragg on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Billy Bragg on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (04:28)

Billy Bragg with Ian McLagan performing "Waiting For the Great Leap Forwards" on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on October 5th, 2006.

Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears

Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears (03:23)

From A Videological Cuddle, a 1991 press kit for "Don't Try This at Home," the music video for the song from "Talking with the Taxman About Poetry"

Billy Bragg - A New England (Live)

Billy Bragg - A New England (Live) (02:39)

From A Videological Cuddle, a 1991 press kit for "Don't Try This at Home"

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Billy Bragg Reviews

Bragg, Billy : England, Half-English

Bragg, Billy : England, Half-English

Pinko veteran's cosy rants ...

  • Mar 26, 2002

Billy Bragg And The Blokes : London Barbican Centre

Inevitably, it seems a bit like a Socialist Worker's conference...

  • Dec 4, 2000

Reaching To The Converted (Minding The Gaps)

Reclaiming the protest song from the clammy paws of po-faced obsolescence, [a]Billy Bragg[/a] has proven Britain's most consistently relevant social soundtracker....

  • Sep 27, 1999

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Billy Bragg Biography

Stephen William Bragg (born 20 December 1957 in Barking, Essex, England), better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician who blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs. His lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes. His music career has lasted more than 30 years, and he has collaborated with Natalie Merchant, Johnny Marr, Kate Nash, Leon Rosselson, members of R.E.M., Michelle Shocked, Less Than Jake, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Kirsty MacColl, and Wilco. Bragg often plays and speaks at the Tolpuddle Martyrs festival. Bragg Close, a street in Dagenham, Greater London, is named in his honour. He now lives in Dorset.

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Billy Bragg's Best Songs

  • 1. A New England
  • 2. The Milkman of Human Kindness
  • 3. Sexuality
  • 4. To Have and to Have Not
  • 5. The Man In The Iron Mask
  • 6. Greetings to the New Brunette
  • 7. Between the Wars
  • 8. The Saturday Boy
  • 9. Levi Stubbs' Tears
  • 10. Accident Waiting to Happen
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Billy Bragg Discography

Billy Bragg albums.

  • Mr Love & Justice (disc 1: Band version) - 04/03/2008 (Cooking Vinyl/GB)
  • Mr Love & Justice (disc 2: Solo version) - 04/03/2008 (Cooking Vinyl/GB)
  • Bloke on Bloke - 06/1997 (Cooking Vinyl/GB)
  • William Bloke - 09/1996 (Cooking Vinyl/GB)
  • Don't Try This at Home - 09/1991 (Go! Discs/GB)
  • The Internationale - (Utility Records/GB)
  • Workers Playtime - 09/1988 (Go! Discs/GB)
  • Talking With the Taxman About Poetry - 09/1986 (Go! Discs/GB)
  • Brewing Up With Billy Bragg - (Go! Discs/GB)

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