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Billy Bragg (20 Dec 1957 - )

Male Person - United Kingdom

 Also known as (1)

Releases (70)

Official

Album

  1. Life’s a Riot With Spy vs Spy Nov 1983
  2. Brewing Up With Billy Bragg Nov 1984
  3. Talking With the Taxman About Poetry 22 Sep 1986
  4. Workers Playtime Sep 1988
  5. The Internationale May 1990
  6. Don’t Try This at Home 17 Sep 1991
  7. William Bloke Sep 1996
  8. Mr Love & Justice 04 Mar 2008
  9. Tooth & Nail 18 Mar 2013
  10. The Million Things That Never Happened 08 Oct 2021
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Album - Compilation

  1. Life's a Riot / Between the Wars 1985
  2. Back to Basics 1987
  3. Victim of Geography Nov 1993
  4. Reaching to the Converted 30 Aug 1999
  5. Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg 06 Oct 2003
  6. Volume I 06 Mar 2006
  7. Volume II 09 Oct 2006
  8. Fight Songs Sep 2011
  9. Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC 1983 – 2019 20 Sep 2019
  10. The Roaring Forty | 1983 – 2023 26 Oct 2023
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Album - Live

  1. The Peel Session Album 01 Jul 1991
  2. Going to a Party Way Down South 2002
  3. Live at the Barbican 21 Mar 2006
  4. Live at the Union Chapel London 2014
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Single

  1. St. Swithin’s Day 1984
  2. Days Like These 1985
  3. Greetings to the New Brunette Nov 1986
  4. Levi Stubbs’ Tears 1986
  5. She’s Got a New Spell Nov 1988
  6. Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards 1988
  7. Sexuality 24 Jun 1991
  8. You Woke Up My Neighbourhood 1991
  9. Accident Waiting to Happen 17 Feb 1992
  10. Upfield 1996
  11. The Boy Done Good / Sugar Daddy May 1997
  12. Take Down the Union Jack 2002
  13. I Keep Faith 09 Mar 2008
  14. The Beach Is Free / I Almost Killed You 21 Jul 2008
  15. Never Buy The Sun 2011
  16. No One Knows Nothing Anymore 20 Apr 2013
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Promotion

Album - Compilation

  1. Still Looking for a New England 1996
  2. 2006 Reissue Sampler, Volume 2 11 Sep 2006
  3. 2006 Reissue Sampler 2006
  4. The Progressive Patriot 2006
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Album - Live

  1. Live: Limited Edition 1991
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Bootleg

Album - Live

  1. Big Mouth Strikes Again 1992
  2. Early Show, The Bottom Line, NYC 30 Dec., 2000
  3. Late Show at the Bottom Line, NYC 30 Dec 2000
  4. 2006-07-16: Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival, Dorset, UK
  5. 1987-03-07: Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
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Relationships (6)

Collaborator On

  1. CAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

Member Of

  1. Billy Bragg and the Blokes eponymous, lead vocals, guitar
  2. Billy Bragg & The Red Stars eponymous
  3. Riff Raff

Support For

  1. Speak Out (30 Jul 2017)

Children

  1. Jack Valero

Recordings by (586)

  1. The Milkman of Human Kindness 2:49 (Nov 1983)
  2. To Have and to Have Not 2:33 (Nov 1983)
  3. Richard 2:50 (Nov 1983)
  4. Lovers Town Revisited 1:19 (Nov 1983)
  5. A New England 2:14 (Nov 1983)
  6. The Busy Girl Buys Beauty 1:57 (Nov 1983)
  7. The Man in the Iron Mask 2:13 (Nov 1983)
  8. Fear Is a Man's Best Friend 2:54 (12 May 1984) live: John Peel Sessions
  9. The Myth of Trust 2:30 (Nov 1984)
  10. This Guitar Says Sorry 2:29 (Nov 1984)
  11. It Says Here 4:17 (Nov 1984)
  12. Love Gets Dangerous 2:23 (Nov 1984)
  13. From a Vauxhall Velox 2:53 (Nov 1984)
  14. The Saturday Boy 3:28 (Nov 1984)
  15. Island of No Return 3:34 (Nov 1984)
  16. Like Soldiers Do 2:39 (Nov 1984)
  17. Strange Things Happen 2:38 (Nov 1984)
  18. A Lover Sings 3:53 (Nov 1984)
  19. St Swithin's Day 3:52 (Nov 1984)
  20. St. Swithin’s Day 3:50 (1984)
  21. Between the Wars 2:29 (1985)
  22. The World Turned Upside Down 2:35 (1985)
  23. Which Side Are You On 2:34 (1985)
  24. Days Like These ?:?? (1985)
  25. I Don't Need This Pressure Ron ?:?? (1985)
  26. Scholarship Is the Enemy of Romance ?:?? (1985)
  27. Greetings to the New Brunette 3:31 (22 Sep 1986)
  28. Train Train 2:12 (22 Sep 1986)
  29. The Marriage 2:31 (22 Sep 1986)
  30. Ideology 3:27 (22 Sep 1986)
  31. Levi Stubbs’ Tears 3:31 (22 Sep 1986)
  32. Honey I’m a Big Boy Now 4:06 (22 Sep 1986)
  33. There Is Power in a Union 2:48 (22 Sep 1986)
  34. Help Save the Youth of America 2:48 (22 Sep 1986)
  35. Wishing the Days Away 2:29 (22 Sep 1986)
  36. The Passion 2:54 (22 Sep 1986)
  37. The Warmest Room 3:57 (22 Sep 1986)
  38. The Home Front 4:10 (22 Sep 1986)
  39. Deportees 3:58 (Nov 1986)
  40. The Tatler 3:35 (Nov 1986)
  41. Jeane 2:47 (Nov 1986)
  42. There Is Power in a Union (instrumental) 3:15 (Nov 1986)
  43. Between the Wars (live) 2:30 (1986)
  44. Think Again 3:32 (1986)
  45. Walk Away Renee (version) 2:24 (1986)
  46. Hold the Fort 1:47 (May 1987)
  47. A Change Is Gonna Come 3:58 (1987)
  48. Must I Paint You a Picture? 5:32 (Sep 1988)
  49. Tender comrade 2:50 (Sep 1988)
  50. The Price I Pay 3:34 (Sep 1988)
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On Recordings (50)

Arranged

  1. Which Side Are You On 2:34 Billy Bragg (1985)

Instruments

  1. Romford Girls 2:15 Riff Raff (1978) guitar
  2. What's the Latest? 2:33 Riff Raff (1978) guitar
  3. Richard 2:50 Billy Bragg (Nov 1983) guitar
  4. A New England 2:14 Billy Bragg (Nov 1983) guitar
  5. The Milkman of Human Kindness 2:49 Billy Bragg (Nov 1983) guitar
  6. Lovers Town Revisited 1:19 Billy Bragg (Nov 1983) guitar
  7. The Busy Girl Buys Beauty 1:57 Billy Bragg (Nov 1983) guitar
  8. The Man in the Iron Mask 2:13 Billy Bragg (Nov 1983) guitar
  9. To Have and to Have Not 2:33 Billy Bragg (Nov 1983) guitar
  10. Greetings to the New Brunette 3:31 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986) electric guitar, acoustic guitar
  11. Levi Stubbs’ Tears 3:31 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986) electric guitar
  12. Honey I’m a Big Boy Now 4:06 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986) electric guitar
  13. The Home Front 4:10 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986) electric guitar
  14. The Warmest Room 3:57 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986) electric guitar
  15. The Marriage 2:31 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986) electric guitar
  16. Help Save the Youth of America 2:48 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986) electric guitar, acoustic guitar
  17. The Passion 2:54 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986) electric guitar
  18. Wishing the Days Away 2:29 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986) slide guitar, acoustic guitar
  19. Ideology 3:27 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986) electric guitar
  20. There Is Power in a Union 2:48 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986) electric guitar
  21. Must I Paint You a Picture? 5:32 Billy Bragg (Sep 1988) electric guitar
  22. The Only One 3:26 Billy Bragg (Sep 1988) acoustic guitar
  23. She’s Got a New Spell 3:25 Billy Bragg (Sep 1988) electric guitar, acoustic guitar

Vocals

  1. Romford Girls 2:15 Riff Raff (1978) lead vocals
  2. What's the Latest? 2:33 Riff Raff (1978) lead vocals
  3. The Busy Girl Buys Beauty 1:57 Billy Bragg (Nov 1983)
  4. To Have and to Have Not 2:33 Billy Bragg (Nov 1983)
  5. Richard 2:50 Billy Bragg (Nov 1983)
  6. A New England 2:14 Billy Bragg (Nov 1983)
  7. The Milkman of Human Kindness 2:49 Billy Bragg (Nov 1983)
  8. The Man in the Iron Mask 2:13 Billy Bragg (Nov 1983)
  9. Lovers Town Revisited 1:19 Billy Bragg (Nov 1983)
  10. Levi Stubbs’ Tears 3:31 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986)
  11. Honey I’m a Big Boy Now 4:06 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986)
  12. The Warmest Room 3:57 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986)
  13. There Is Power in a Union 2:48 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986)
  14. The Passion 2:54 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986)
  15. The Marriage 2:31 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986)
  16. Ideology 3:27 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986)
  17. The Home Front 4:10 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986)
  18. Wishing the Days Away 2:29 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986)
  19. Greetings to the New Brunette 3:31 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986)
  20. Help Save the Youth of America 2:48 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986)
  21. Train Train 2:12 Billy Bragg (22 Sep 1986)
  22. Walk Away Renee (version) 2:24 Billy Bragg (1986) spoken vocals
  23. Junco Partner 3:10 The Gang (1987) guest
  24. The Only One 3:26 Billy Bragg (Sep 1988)
  25. Valentine’s Day Is Over 4:53 Billy Bragg (Sep 1988)
  26. She’s Got a New Spell 3:25 Billy Bragg (Sep 1988)

Credited as (92)

  1. Billy Bragg
  2. Billy Bragg and Eliza Carthy
  3. Billy Bragg & Wilco
  4. Billy Bragg and Cara Tivey
  5. Sid Griffin and Billy Bragg
  6. Billy Bragg & The Neurotics
  7. Billy Bragg, Andy White & Sinéad O’Connor
  8. Billy Bragg with Cara Tivey
  9. Kirsty MacColl feat. Billy Bragg
  10. Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Ani DiFranco, Steve Earle & Anne Hills
  11. Billy Bragg feat. Jill Sobule
  12. Billy Bragg & Heathens All
  13. Less Than Jake feat. Billy Bragg
  14. Billy Bragg & Wilco feat. Natalie Merchant
  15. Billy Bragg & The Red Stars
  16. Billy Bragg and The Young Coppers with Eliza Carthy and Simon Emmerson
  17. Modena City Ramblers feat. Billy Bragg
  18. Billy Bragg feat. Natalie Merchant
  19. Billy Bragg with Wiggy and The Neurotics and Attila the Stockbroker
  20. Billy Bragg feat. Ian McLagan
  21. Billy Bragg feat. The Pattersons
  22. Sinéad O’Connor feat. Billy Bragg
  23. Billy Bragg with Eliza Carthy
  24. Billy Bragg with The Pattersons
  25. Leon Rosselson, Billy Bragg & The Oyster Band
  26. Kirsty MacColl with Billy Bragg
  27. Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Ani DiFranco, Steve Earle
  28. Thea Gilmore with Billy Bragg
  29. Thea Gilmore feat. Billy Bragg
  30. Levellers feat. Billy Bragg
  31. Billy Bragg w/ Wilco
  32. Billy Bragg With The Neurotics
  33. Billy Bragg feat. Cara Tivey
  34. Billy Bragg & Joe Henry
  35. Leon Rosselson with Billy Bragg & The Oyster Band
  36. The Imagined Village feat. Billy Bragg
  37. Beats International feat. Billy Bragg
  38. Milburn feat. Billy Bragg
  39. Wet Wet Wet / Billy Bragg
  40. Dan Zanes feat. Billy Bragg
  41. Billy Bragg feat. Johnny Marr
  42. Kirsty MacColl & Billy Bragg
  43. Ani DiFranco featuring Billy Bragg
  44. Ani DiFranco feat. Billy Bragg
  45. Wilco & Billy Bragg feat. Natalie Merchant
  46. 10,000 Maniacs feat. Billy Bragg
  47. Billy Bragg, Wilco & Natalie Merchant
  48. Billy Bragg & The Young Coppers
  49. Billy Bragg, Wilco
  50. Billy Bragg feat. The Athenians & DJ Woody Dee
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Works (298)

Wrote

  1. Bread and Circuses
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Translated

  1. The Internationale (1989)
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Composed

  1. My Flying Saucer (1995)
  2. The Unwelcome Guest (1996)
  3. Eisler on the Go (1997)
  4. Walt Whitman’s Niece (1997)
  5. Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key (1997)
  6. Birds and Ships (1997)
  7. I Guess I Planted (1997)
  8. Ingrid Bergman (1997)
  9. All You Fascists (1997)
  10. Another Man’s Done Gone (1998)
  11. She Came Along to Me (1998)
  12. Jailcell Blues
  13. Don't You Marry
  14. The Wolf Covers It's Tracks
  15. The Marriage
  16. Love Gets Dangerous
  17. From a Vauxhall Velox
  18. The Saturday Boy
  19. Strange Things Happen
  20. Like Soldiers Do
  21. This Guitar Says Sorry
  22. Island of No Return
  23. Ideology
  24. Levi Stubbs’ Tears
  25. Honey I'm a Big Boy Now
  26. Help Save the Youth of America
  27. Wishing the Days Away
  28. The Passion
  29. The Warmest Room
  30. A New England
  31. Saffiyah Smiles
  32. King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood
  33. Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
  34. Full English Brexit
  35. Stetson Kennedy ( - 1997)
  36. Meanest Man ( - 1997)
  37. Black Wind Blowing ( - 1997)
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Lyrics

  1. You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
  2. Cindy of a Thousand Lives
  3. A New England
  4. As Long as You Hold Me
  5. Which Side Are You On?
  6. The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions
  7. Moving the Goalposts
  8. Saffiyah Smiles
  9. King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood
  10. Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
  11. Full English Brexit
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Events (26)

Main Performer At

  1. Billy Bragg at Cambridge Corn Exchange
  2. Bergenfest 2014, Day 4
  3. Reading Festival 1996, day 2: Main Stage
  4. Later... with Jools Holland: Series 8, Episode 4
  5. Guinness Fleadh Festival 1998: New York, day 2
  6. Guinness Fleadh Festival 1998: Chicago
  7. SXSW 2010, day 1: Prague time
  8. SXSW 2006, day 3: Cedar Street Courtyard time
  9. Bluesfest Byron Bay 2017, Day 3: Crossroads time
  10. RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest 2012, Day 1: Black Sheep Stage time
  11. Roskilde Festival 1996, Day 2: White time
  12. SXSW 2006, day 4: Central Presbyterian Church time
  13. SXSW 2010, day 3: The Ghost Room time
  14. Roskilde Festival 1996, Day 2: Orange time
  15. Bluesfest Byron Bay 2017, Day 5: Jambalaya time
  16. Guinness Fleadh Festival 1998: San Francisco
  17. 1996‐09‐29: Severance Hall, Cleveland, OH, USA
  18. Winnipeg Folk Festival 2003, Day 3: Main Stage
  19. Winnipeg Folk Festival 2003
  20. Glastonbury Festival 2007, Day 3: Avalon Stage
  21. Billy Bragg in London

Support Act At

  1. Glastonbury Festival 1984 time
  2. Glastonbury 2013: Pyramid Stage (Saturday) time
  3. Glastonbury Festival 1997: Acoustic Stage
  4. Glastonbury Festival 1997, Day 3: Pyramid Stage
  5. Glastonbury Festival 1999: Pyramid Stage, Day 2

Links (28)

Official Homepages

  1. http://www.billybragg.co.uk/

Other Databases

  1. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91127333
  2. https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13933647s
  3. https://d-nb.info/gnd/122061209
  4. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/billy_bragg
  5. https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2712281A/
  6. https://www.45cat.com/artist/billy-bragg
  7. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n91127333
  8. http://musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/B/Bragg,_Billy/

Lyrics Page

  1. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Billy_Bragg
  2. http://muzikum.eu/en/122-3971/billy-bragg/lyrics.html

Last.Fm

  1. https://www.last.fm/music/Billy+Bragg

Songkick

  1. https://www.songkick.com/artists/489208

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/83242

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000083554

Imdb

  1. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0103891/

VIAF ID

  1. http://viaf.org/viaf/45173279

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508412

Secondhandsongs

  1. https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/6180

Stream For Free

  1. https://open.spotify.com/artist/5yXAFDZNUNyO92l5WTImkO
  2. https://www.deezer.com/artist/9448

Bandcamp

  1. https://billybragg.bandcamp.com/

Streaming Page

  1. https://tidal.com/artist/3609000

BBC Music

  1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/7cec4a03-0a83-4308-856a-afb8aa5db0fc

Social Networking

  1. https://twitter.com/billybragg
  2. https://www.facebook.com/billybraggofficial

Soundcloud

  1. https://soundcloud.com/billy-bragg-3

Youtube Channels

  1. https://www.youtube.com/user/BillyBraggVEVO