Billy Bragg: Still Suitable for Miners

by Andrew Collins (Author), Billy Bragg (Foreword)

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  1998

  $3.25

  Billy Bragg rose from working class origins through punk rock and a spell in the Army to become one of the UK's most famous protest singers. This is the official life story of the pop icon. It includes childhood photographs and images from Billy's personal archive.

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.25

  He was a punk. He was a soldier. He was a flag-waver for the Labour Party. He is Billy Bragg, best known as a passionate political songwriter and urbane folk singer, but equally admired for his offbeat love songs. Billy Bragg is a British institution who never went out of fashion (he was never in fashion in the first place). In America he was chosen as the spiritual heir to legendary protest singer Woody Guthrie, beating rival claims from the likes of Bob Dylan and Neil Young. In the UK he surfaced on current affairs TV programmes during the 2001 election dressed as a Roman legionary advocating tactical voting to keep the Tories out. Billy Bragg is a one-off and Still Suitable for Miners is his official story, a portrait of a peerless entertainer and a fearless campaigner growing up in Britain in the years after rock 'n' roll. The book includes childhood photos and previously unseen images from Billy's personal archive.