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Billy Bragg
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 20
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Stephen William Bragg
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Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away
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What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.
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It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.
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I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
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Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.
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A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.
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By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.
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An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.
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The evil lot who did that thing on September 11 did it because they wanted to create a war between America and Islam. And by invading Iraq, we gave them what they hoped for.
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I never met a politician who didn't want to be a guitar player in a rock band. I've got the opportunity to say what I believe in.
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If we accuse Trump of being a liar, he won't just say 'I never said that' or just ignore it and go on to the next thing.
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The idea that musicians should be talking about politics is, in some ways, quite a sixties' idea. Music no longer has a vanguard role in youth culture.
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We've heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh. All the things about 'the ugly American' that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it's all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display.
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If you thought the army was here protecting people like yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend wealth.
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Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.
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I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.
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I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas.
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I'd like to think that in a generation or two we'll have politicians whose life experience reflects that of the people who are voting for them.
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Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.
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Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.
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