Saw Billy Bragg a few times in 1984 and again in 2009. Amazing, the bloke's enthusiasm for what he's doing doesn't seem to have waned one bit. And he talks a lot of sense about socialism.
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When you have a passion for music just like billy...enthusiasm for what you do never withers...legend on his own right...
ReplyDeleteThe Tart went to see him the other night and gave him only praise.
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