Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg (Barking, Essex, 1957) is a singer-songwriter, activist and writer. In his songs he has mixed folk, punk and protest songs, and as a citizen he has participated in various protest causes. The author of a dozen albums, he has published the essays The Progressive Patriot and Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World, and A Lover Sings, an anthology of his best lyrics.

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