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	Billy Bragg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stephen William Bragg (born December 20, 1957), known as Billy Bragg, is a British musician known for his blend of folk, punk-rock, and protest music, and his poetic lyrics dealing with political as well as romantic themes.
		Billy Bragg was born in a district of Essex that is now part of Greater London.
		Bragg has been an outspoken opponent of fascism, racism, bigotry, sexism and homophobia in all manifestations and a supporter of a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic environment of modern Britain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billy_Bragg (2217 words)

	Everything about Billy Bragg - Biography
		Billy Bragg was recently described by The Times newspaper as a ‘national treasure’.
		Bragg’s stark musical backdrop – for the most part a roughly strummed electric guitar –; and even starker vocals belied a keen sense of melody and passionate, deeply humane lyrics.
		Bragg also turned his attention to campaigning for reform of the House of Lords –; the UK’s second chamber – by writing and publishing A Genuine Expression of the Will of the People, a political pamphlet on the subject.
	www.billybragg.co.uk /biography (1806 words)

	PopPolitics.com - Love of Labor
		Billy Bragg is more than just a bloke with an endearing “up the workers” style.
		Bragg’s labor songs and narratives made him the ideal choice to interpret the large unrecorded catalog of work left by the legendary Woody Guthrie.
		Both Bragg and Guthrie mined their respective traditions of protests songs; for Bragg it was nascent punk and the radical folk tradition, while for Guthrie the spare hillbilly blues or the narrative ballad often formed the basis for his songs.
	www.poppolitics.com /articles/2000-10-12-bragg.shtml (2094 words)

	CNN.com - A 'one-man Clash' - Mar 23, 2006
		Bragg's early output -- the albums "Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy" (1983), "Brewing Up with Billy Bragg" (1984), "Talking with the Taxman About Poetry" (1986) and "The Internationale" (1990) -- back him up.
		Bragg first got the thrill of political recognition as a child, when he swapped a copy of the Jackson Five's greatest hits for Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'." The sound was revelatory, he says.
		Bragg is, of course, a different man than he was during the Thatcher years, just as the world is a different place.
	www.cnn.com /2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/22/billy.bragg (1045 words)

	Billy Bragg Volume 1 Luxury Boxed Set - Out Now!
		Billy will be playing the International Arts Festival in Salisbury on 1 June as his Hope Not Hate tour agaainst the BNP continues.
		Billy is performing on the bill in Hard-Fi's five sold-out shows at the Brixton Academy, London, from 14 to 18 May inclusive.
		Billy calls on Labour to deliver free healthcare and housing, affordable housing and decent pensions, and condemns the BNP for exploiting economic decline during the local elections, in a Daily Mirror article today.
	www.billybragg.co.uk (454 words)

	www.myspace.com/billybragg
		Bragg then briefly joined a tank regiment of the British Army before buying his way out with what he later described as the most wisely spent 175 of his life.
		Bragg also turned his attention to campaigning for reform of the House of Lords the UKs second chamber by writing and publishing A Genuine Expression of the Will of the People, a political pamphlet on the subject.
		Billy is to release the single 'We Laughed' with Rosetta Life, a song Billy wrote with patients facing life-threatening illness, as part of the Rosetta Requiem project.
	www.myspace.com /billybragg (2183 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Billy Bragg
		Although his tools were utterly simple, Bragg proved himself capable of enormous strength and depth in his writing and performing, spinning off touching, warm love songs as well as trenchant social satire and socialist political commentary.
		Bragg was nearly invisible in the first half of the '90s, bowing out of the spotlight after reaching a dead end with Don't Try This at Home.
		At the nadir of this deeply disappointing album, Bragg croons the soul ballad "Wish You Were Her" in an unrecognizable falsetto.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=billy_bragg (878 words)

	Billy Bragg Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Billy Bragg 1: orn December 20, 1957), known as '''Billy Bragg ''', has been described as being amongst the best 4: Billy Bragg was born in a district of Essex, EnglandEssex] 5: Must I Paint You A Picture?
		The Essential Billy Bragg Must I Paint You A Picture ", Borders Bookshop, 6: Attending a comprehensive school, Bragg 's educational career was uneventful.
		Bragg was born in Warren County, North Carolina 4: Union Forces retreated to Chattanooga.
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	Billy Bragg, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Finding inspiration in the righteous anger of punk rock and the socially conscious folk tradition of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg was the leading figure of the anti-folk movement of the '80s.
		Bragg began performing in the late '70s with the punk group Riff Raff, which lasted only a matter of months.
		During 1984, Bragg became a minor celebrity in Britain, as he appeared at leftist political rallies, strikes, and benefits across the country; he also helped form the "Red Wedge," a socialist musicians collective that also featured Paul Weller.
	www.emusic.com /artist/11572/11572306.html (622 words)

	Amazon.com: Mermaid Avenue: Music: Billy Bragg & Wilco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When you first heard that Billy Bragg and Wilco were teaming up to set some Woody Guthrie lyrics to music, you knew it'd be an interesting project.
		Billy Bragg and Wilco may make a curious, or at least not a very obvious, choice for the task, but boy, are they up for it!
		The fact is that Bragg can't imagine being as politically radical as Guthrie was, not because Bragg is a closet liberal, but because Guthrie was a part of a radical movement in the United States the likes of which is simply not to be found in the U.S. or Britain nowadays.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000007NC0?v=glance (1681 words)

	Ink 19 :: Billy Bragg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bragg has preached about doing the right thing for his fellow mansince his very first album - almost to the point of becoming a nuisance.
		Bragg assured his audience that it was OK if they just came to hearthe love songs and "didn't know the words to 'The Internationale'," but with histypical aplomb and wit he explained what it was he believed in.
		Billy Bragg has a knack for bringing ideological concepts and worldissues down to a personal level.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/99_11/live_ink/015_billy_bragg.shtml (612 words)

	Something Old, Something New: Billy Bragg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Billy Bragg began performing in the late '70s with the punk group Riff Raff, who released a series of indie seven-inch singles including the wonderfully titled I Wanna Be a Cosmonaut.
		Bragg undertook a solo tour of the concert halls and clubs of Britain and eventually managed to record his debut e.p.
		Today, Billy Bragg is still searching for that New England - a country where where belonging is not tainted by racism or tabloid-nspired xenophobia.
	somethingold-somethingnew.blogspot.com /2005/09/billy-bragg.html (316 words)

	Mermaid Avenue by Billy Bragg and Wilco
		We first became aware of Englishman Billy Bragg in 1992 when he was invited to perform at New York City's "Summerstage" birthday celebration for Woody.
		Billy had a special comraderie with all the performers.
		Billy Bragg and Wilco brought Woody back to life with a sound that raised the roofs of the old barns.
	www.woodyguthrie.org /merchandise/mermaidavenuevol1.htm (342 words)

	Rolling Stone : Billy Bragg Gets Boxed
		Another way of marking the progress of Bragg's career, however, will arrive February 21st, with the release of Volume I, a nine-disc box set that includes four of the British punk-folk singer's early releases, plus a pair of live DVDs.
		The music documents Bragg's rise from a singer-songwriter to the full-fledged political activist who helped form a coalition of left-leaning pop stars called Red Wedge.
		Life's a Riot, for example, is accompanied by extras that show Bragg's transition from singer in the punk band Riff Raff to solo performer, armed only with his electric guitar, Cockney accent and sharp wit.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/9330137/billy_bragg_gets_boxed (520 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Must I Paint You a Picture - The Essential Billy Bragg [Box set]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It says a lot for Billy Bragg's individual approach to pop music that I sat down to listen to this three disc CD of his "Best Of" not only NOT to hear his only number one single, but not even EXPECTING it to be on the collection.
		In the Eighties, of course, the Beatles were ancient history, Billy Bragg has not faded away completely yet, though presenting slots on Radio Two comes pretty close, and this repackaging of material already repackaged before (e.g.
		It's the Billy Bragg I spent my late teens listening to - angry, ironic, lyrics, stripped-down music and an almost visceral reaction to the debris of the Thatcher years.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000BVM02 (1032 words)

	BillyBragg
		On 17th December 1999, Billy finished his UK tour in Brighton.
		As part of the BBC's "The Nation's Lyrics" programme, Billy performed Bob Dylan's "The Times they Are A-Changin'".
		For those who would rather disbelieve such things, conclusive proof that Billy has in fact had a Number One hit single, according to The Guinness Book Of Hit Singles.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /mikejh/BillyBragg.html (283 words)

	Technorati Tag: Billy Bragg
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		A week ago yesterday, Billy Bragg (who seems to have got his spark back of late), played the Somerville Theatre.
		Billy Bragg Of WILCO, Musician and Activist Releases
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	Review: Billy Bragg's Workers' Playtime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		What Billy does is politicize the life of the common man with acoustic guitar-based tunes and wavering vocals that never loose the edgy English accent.
		Billy's music brings to the fore the values of socialism vs. capitalism.
		Of course, in America, the former is almost always assumed to be practically the same thing as communism, an irony that is certainly not lost on Billy's European audience.
	www.pocopico.com /rants/billybragg.php (413 words)

	Billy Bragg - Last.fm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stephen William Bragg (born December 20, 1957), known as Billy Bragg, is a British musician known for his blend of folk, punk-rock, and protest music.
		Listen to music, see charts for Billy Bragg - A New England, Billy Bragg - The Milkman of Human Kindness, Billy Bragg - Greetings to the New Brunette, Billy Bragg - To Have and to Have Not, Billy Bragg - Levi Stubbs' Tears
		Billy Bragg is intelligent, witty, sincere, informed, and one of the most downright fantastic artists I have ever been exposed to.
	www.last.fm /music/Billy+Bragg (259 words)

	Billy Bragg
		He is also remembered as the songwriting idol who fueled the creative fire within BOB DYLAN, spurring the young folkie from Hibbing, Minnesota to a besides vigil at a New York hospital where Guthrie spent the last 15 years of his life suffering from Huntington's Chorea.
		Bragg's authority on the subject, surprisingly, is as collaborator.
		Billy Bragg has been more successful with his music, and his long-winded stories in concert are almost as entertaining, and equally as pointed, as the songs he performs.
	www.octopusmediaink.com /BillyBragg.html (1112 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Music: Bands and Artists: B: Bragg, Billy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Billy Bragg at Detroit LaborFest '98 - Live concert in RealAudio format.
		Billy Bragg Guitar Tab - A fairly complete collection of Bragg tablatures.
		The Billy Bragg Page - A collection of stuff not usually found elsewhere, including photos, reviews, and song clips.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/B/Bragg,_Billy (331 words)

	Billy Bragg Ringtones, Ringtone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		Billy Bragg - The Space Race is Over
		Billy Bragg - There is Power in a Union
	www.advancedringtones.co.uk /billy-bragg_ringtones_n.htm (274 words)

	BILLYBRAGG :: Pauly's 'Stoney Soapbox
		Three versions of the Billy Bragg and The Blokes UK single Take Down The Union Jack from the new album England, Half English, will be released on Cooking Vinyl on May 20.
		If you think the minimum wage is not enough and want to help the Living Wage campaign force big employers to pay proper rates of pay for low- or semi-skilled jobs, especially in expensive areas such as cities, then this campaign is for you.
		Visit Billy Braggs web site to read the official press release issued on St Georges Day (April 23).
	www.clarkeology.com /cgi-bin/board.cgi/BILLYBRAGG (610 words)

	MTV Music \| Billy Bragg - Artist Area
		For most of the decade, Bragg bashed out songs alone on his electric guitar, singing about...
		Billy Bragg, Holly Johnson Honor Kirsty MacColl At Memorial
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	Telling Truth
		Arts: Billy Bragg is living the life every ex-punk should aspire to.
		But when Mother Jones calls the 46-year-old Bragg at his house in the rural southwest of England, with its sweeping view of the English Channel, the thing that is uppermost in his mind is walking the dogs before it gets dark.
		Mother Jones: Last time you and I spoke was about 20 years ago, outside the QM Union in Glasgow, waiting for the all clear after a bomb scare.
	www.motherjones.com /arts/qa/2004/03/02_102.html (1547 words)

	Billy Bragg - Sexuality - Last.fm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		2,206 people have listened to Sexuality by Billy Bragg.
		Of all 17,277 people that have listened to songs by Billy Bragg, this represents 12.8%.
	www.last.fm /music/Billy+Bragg/_/Sexuality (96 words)

	Billy Bragg Concert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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