Billy Bragg - Milkman of human kindness on Whistle test. + Informações

New England by Billy Bragg. + Informações

Remember the Miners Strike 1984-1985. + Informações

From The Henry Rollins Show, 5/25/07. + Informações

From A Videological Cuddle, a 1991 press kit for "Don't Try This at Home". + Informações

In 1649 To St. George's Hill, A ragged band they called the Diggers Came to show the people's will They defied the landlords They defied the laws They were the dispossessed reclaiming what was theirs We come in peace they said To dig and sow We come to work the lands in common And to make the waste ground grow This earth divided We will make whole So it will be A common treasury for all The sin of property We do disdain No man has any right to buy and sell The earth for private gain By theft and murder They took the land Mow everywhere the walls Spring up at their command They make the laws To chain us well The clergy dazzle us with heaven Or they damn us into hell We will not worship The God they serve The God of greed who feed the rich While poor folk starve We work we eat together We need no swords We will not bow to the masters Or pay rent to the lords Still we are free Though we are poor You Diggers all stand up for glory Stand up now From the men of property The orders came They sent the hired men and troopers To wipe out the Diggers' claim Tear down their cottages Destroy their corn They were dispersed But still the vision lingers on You poor take courage You rich take care This earth was made a common treasury For everyone to share All things in common All people one We come in peace The orders came to cut them down. + Informações

Just got back from seeing Billy Bragg at Garforth Arts Festival. He debuted a song about the News of the World scandal called "Never buy the Sun". Written Friday night, played live Saturday night - he certainly doesn't hang about. He's posted a video clip of him singing it in his dressing room before the gig. I take no credit for the clip which was filmed by, and is the property of, Stephen Grubb of www.altarmotivefilms.co.uk.. + Informações

From A Videological Cuddle, a 1991 press kit for "Don't Try This at Home," the music video for the song from "Talking with the Taxman About Poetry". + Informações

Billy Bragg with Ian McLagan performing "Waiting For the Great Leap Forwards" on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on October 5th, 2006.. + Informações

BILLY BRAGG - Bochum (Germany), Zeche, 30 May 1985. + Informações

billy bragg and kate nash sing foundations/a new england at the NME awards 2007. Dont like this song, was put up for a friend.. + Informações

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Billy Bragg playing "Between The Wars" on ToTP. Notice he's playing live, as opposed to miming to a backing track.. + Informações

Billy Bragg - It Says Here (Live on BBC Breakfast Time 1984). + Informações

What is that sound Where is it coming from All around What are you running from Something you don't understand Something you cannot command Chorus: That's how I know She's got a new spell Yes, that's how I know That she's got a new spell What's going down Who's moved this room from round me Where has it gone I fear this night will drown me So I lie awake all night 'Cos I can't sleep with something I can't fight The laws of gravity are very, very strict And you're just bending them for your own benefit One minute she says She's gone to get the cat in The next thing I know She's mumbling in Latin She cut the stars out of the sky And baked them in a pie She stole the scene and scenery The script and the machinery. + Informações

This song comes from the 1998 album, Mermaid Avenue. The lyrics to all the songs on this album were written by Woody Guthrie sometime before his death in 1967 and put to music by Billy Bragg and Wilco about 30 years later. The words to this song paint a picture of sleeping and dreaming beneath the beautiful California stars.. + Informações

Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers Leave the light on at the top of the stairs Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky A tree taps on the window pane That feeling smothers me again Daddy is it true that we all have to die At the top of the stairs Is darkness I closed my eyes and when I looked Your name was in the memorial book and what had become of all the things we planned I accepted the commiserations Of all your friends and your relations But there's some things I still don't understand You were so tall How could you fall? Some photographs of a summer's day A little boy's lifetime away Is all I've left of everything we've done Like a pale moon in a sunny sky Death gazes down as I pass by To remind me that I'm but my father's son I offer up to you This tribute I offer up to you This tank park salute. + Informações

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performed at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto June 17, 2008 after attempting the Sugardaddy request of a little boy (who, rather than keep Billy struggling, changed his request to A New England) he then did this request of a little girl. + Informações

Slideshow of images related to this great song compiled by Tim Davies. + Informações

NOT THE UNION OUR UNION """""""""""""" There is power in a factory, power in the land Power in the hands of a worker But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand There is power in a Union Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers' blood The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud War has always been the bosses' way, sir The Union forever defending our rights Down with the blackleg, all workers unite With our brothers and our sisters from many far off lands There is power in a Union Now I long for the morning that they realise Brutality and unjust laws can not defeat us But who'll defend the workers who cannot organise When the bosses send their lackies out to cheat us? Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child There is power in a Union The Union forever defending our rights Down with the blackleg, all workers unite With our brothers and our sisters together we will stand There is power in a Union. """""""""". + Informações

Video for Billy Bragg single 'Sexuality' from the 1991 album 'Don't Try This At Home', as you can see in the clip it reached #22 on the Triple J Hot 100 of the year here in Australia. I really like this one as it has a light fun feel about it compared to his other heavier type stuff, entertaining funny video too.The late Kristy MacColl also has guest vocals & co stars in this video. (All copyrights belong to respective owners, no infringement intended). + Informações

Bill Bailey sings 'Unisex Chipshop', his parody of Billy Bragg, with help from Billy himself.. + Informações

Billy Bragg closed out his 10/22/02 performance at a get-out-the-vote rally in the lobby of the AFL-CIO building with this rousing labor anthem. He's joined on stage by Britannia the Cheerleader.. + Informações

Words: Guthrie 1942 Music: Bragg 1997 All You Fascists ****************** I'm gonna tell all you fascists you may be surprised The people in this world are getting organized You're bound to lose, you fascists are bound to lose Race hatred cannot stop us this one thing I know Your poll tax and Jim Crow and greed have got to go You're bound to lose, you fascists bound to lose All of you fascists bound to lose You fascists bound to lose All of you fascists bound to lose You fascists bound to lose You're bound to lose! You fascists! Bound to lose People of every colour marching side by side Marching 'cross these fields where a million fascists died You're bound to lose, you fascists bound to lose I'm going into this battle, and take my union gun We'll end this world of slavery before this battle's won You're bound to lose, you fascists bound to lose. + Informações