Billy Bragg

Biography

Finding inspiration within the righteous anger of punk rock and roll as well as the socially conscious folk custom of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, Billy Bragg was the best figure from the anti-folk motion from the ’80s. For some from the 10 years, Bragg bashed out tracks only on his guitar, performing about politics and like. While his lyrics had been bitingly smart and clever, these were also warm and humane, filled up with fine detail and wit. Despite the fact that his lyrics had been carefully regarded as, Bragg under no circumstances neglected to create melodies for tracks that were solid and memorable. Through the entire ’80s, he were able to graph regularly in Britain, however he just collected a cult pursuing in America, that could be because of the fact that he sang about distinctly English subject material, both politically and socially. Bragg started carrying out in the past due ’70s using the punk group Riff Raff, which lasted just a matter of weeks. He then became a member of the English Army, however he quickly bought himself from his sojourn with £175. After departing the Military, he began operating at an archive shop; while he was operating, he was composing tracks that were securely within the folk and punk protest custom. Bragg started a English tour, playing whenever he previously the opportunity to perform. Regularly he would open up for rings with just a moment’s see; soon, he previously built a big following, mainly because evidenced by his first EP, Life’s a Riot with Spy vs. Spy (1983), striking number 30 for the U.K. unbiased graphs. Making Up with Billy Bragg (1984), his initial full-length record, climbed to amount 16 within the graphs. During 1984, Bragg became a superstar in Britain, as he made an appearance at leftist politics rallies, hits, and benefits in the united states; he also helped type the “Crimson Wedge,” a socialist music artists’ collective that also highlighted Paul Weller. In 1985, Kirsty MacColl had taken one of is own music, “New Britain,” to amount seven over the United kingdom singles graph. Featuring some simple instrumental enhancements of piano and horns, 1986’s Speaking using the Taxman About Poetry reached the U.K. TOP. Bragg’s version from the Beatles’ “She’s Departing Home,” extracted from the Sgt. Pepper Knew MY DAD tribute record, became his just number one solitary in 1988 — because the dual A-side with Damp Damp Wet’s “With just a little Help from My Close friends.” That yr, he also released the EP ASSIST IN SAVING the Youngsters of America as well as the full-length Employees Playtime, that was made by Joe Boyd (Fairport Convention, Nick Drake, R.E.M.). Boyd helped increase Bragg’s sound, because the vocalist recorded with a complete band for the very first time. The following yr, Bragg restarted the Energy record label as a means of featuring noncommercial new performers. The Internationale, released in 1990, was a assortment of left-wing anthems, including a small number of Bragg originals. On 1991’s Don’t TRY OUT THIS in the home, he again caused a full music group, documenting his most pop-oriented and available set of tracks; the recording featured the strike solitary, “Sexuality.” Bragg got many years off after Don’t TRY OUT THIS at Home, selecting to focus on fatherhood. He came back in 1996 with William Bloke. In 1998, he teamed using the American alternate country music group Wilco to record Mermaid Avenue, a assortment of performances predicated on unreleased tracks originally compiled by Woody Guthrie. Achieving to the Transformed, a assortment of rarities, adopted a year later on, and in middle-2000 Bragg and Wilco reunited for another Mermaid Avenue established. While touring to get Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2, Bragg produced the Blokes in 1999 with Little Encounters keyboardist Ian McLagan. Lu Edmonds (electric guitar), Ben Mandelson (lap metal electric guitar), Martyn Barker (drums), and Simon Edwards (bass) solidified the group while Bragg transferred from London to rural Dorset in early 2001. Twelve months afterwards, the Blokes became a member of Bragg for Britain, Half British, his first single work since William Bloke. In 2004, Bragg collaborated with SIGNIFICANTLY LESS THAN Jake for “The Brightest Light bulb Has Burnt Out,” a monitor included on the Rock and roll Against Bush, Vol. 1 compilation. The two-CD SHOULD I Color You an image? THE FUNDAMENTAL Billy Bragg made an appearance in 2003 with preliminary copies having a third reward Compact disc of collectibles and rarities. The Yep Roc label released the container set Quantity 1 in 2006. The established included seven CDs and two Dvd videos of previously unavailable live video footage, as well as the label concurrently reissued four game titles from Bragg’s early back again catalog in extended editions. Billy Bragg spent another year documenting in London, Devon, and Lincolnshire, and 2008 noticed the discharge of Mr. Like & Justice, his initial solo work in six years. Even though Blokes offered as Bragg’s support band for the record, a limited-edition bundle also included another disc made up of close single recordings. The bare-bones Woody Guthrie-inspired Tooth & Toe nail found its way to early 2013 and the next season brought the Dvd movie & CD established, Live on the Union Chapel, including an encore efficiency of Life’s a Riot with Spy vs. Spy in its entirety being a reward feature. Within the springtime of 2016, Bragg teamed up with American vocalist, songwriter, and manufacturer Joe Henry to create an recording of folk tunes inspired from the legacy from the American railroad program. Recorded having a portable documenting rig while Bragg and Henry rode an Amtrak collection from Chicago to LA, Sparkle a Light: Field Recordings from the fantastic American Railroad premiered in Sept 2016, and accompanied by a joint concert tour.

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#	Fact
1	Bragg publicly opposed Paul Simon's decision to record his album Graceland in Apartheid South Africa in the 1980s. When Simon played the first of six nights at London's Royal Albert Hall on April 7 1987, Bragg joined Paul Weller and Jerry Dammers in protesting outside and delivered a letter demanding that Simon give a "complete and heartfelt apology to the UN General Assembly".
2	Supported the Liberal Democrats at the 2010 UK general election.
3	A founding member and a director of the Featured Artists' Coalition, a lobby group launched in 2009 with the aim of giving music artists a greater voice in big decisions in the music industry, from digital deals to copyright law.
4	Winner of the 2007 Q Classic Songwriter Award.
5	One of his albums was produced primarily to pay a large bill to British tax authorities. The album was entitled, appropriately, "Talking With The Taxman About Poetry".
6	West Ham Football club supporter.



Soundtrack

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status	Character
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood	2016	TV Movie documentary performer: "Blake's Jerusalem"
Urban Hymn	2015	performer: "I Keep Faith"
Whatever Happened to Rock 'n' Roll?	2015	TV Movie performer: "Island of No Return" - uncredited / writer: "Island of No Return" - uncredited
Paper Towns	2015	performer: "WALT WHITMAN'S NIECE" / writer: "WALT WHITMAN'S NIECE"
The Gambler	2014/III	performer: "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright"
Pride	2014/I	performer: "There Is Power in a Union" / writer: "There Is Power in a Union"
Trophy Wife	2014	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Bad Words	2013	performer: "Feed of Man"
Thanks for Sharing	2012	performer: "TENDER COMRADE" / writer: "TENDER COMRADE"
Drink 'Em Dry	2012	Documentary performer: "There Is Power in a Union" / writer: "There Is Power in a Union"
Fringe	2012	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Elokuu	2011	performer: "A New England" / writer: "A New England"
Love & Other Drugs	2010	performer: "Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key" / writer: "Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key" - as Stephen William Bragg
Made in Dagenham	2010	writer: "Made In Dagenham"
House M.D.	2010	TV Series performer - 1 episode
180° South	2010	Documentary performer: "Remember the Mountain Bed"
Religulous	2008	Documentary performer: "Christ For President"
The Strangers	2008	performer: "At My Window, Sad and Lonely"
War, Inc.	2008	performer: "Blood of the Lamb"
Mama's Boy	2007	performer: "The Busy Girl Buys Beauty", "She's Got a New Spell" / writer: "The Busy Girl Buys Beauty", "She's Got a New Spell"
King of California	2007	performer: "California Stars"
Half Nelson	2006	performer: "A New England"
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train	2004	Documentary performer: "There Is Power In A Union" / writer: "There Is Power In A Union"
Monkey Dust	2003	TV Series 1 episode
Chelsea Walls	2001	performer: "When the Roses Bloom Again"
Gilmore Girls	2001	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Mumford	1999	performer: "Hoodoo Voodoo" / writer: "Hoodoo Voodoo"
A Room for Romeo Brass	1999	performer: "Everywhere"
Children of the Revolution	1996	performer: "Tender Comrade" / writer: "Tender Comrade"
Walking and Talking	1996	performer: "She's Got a New Spell", "Fourteenth of February", "Must I Paint You a Picture", "You Woke Up My Neighborhood" / writer: "She's Got a New Spell", "Fourteenth of February", "Must I Paint You a Picture", "You Woke Up My Neighborhood"
Mad Love	1995	writer: "As Long As You Hold Me"
Sirppi ja kitara	1988	Documentary performer: "Get Up, Stand Up"

Composer

Composer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Walking and Talking	1996
Screenplay	1993	TV Series 1 episode

Music Department

Music Department

Title	Year	Status	Character
Falling Out	2011	Short musician

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

Title	Year	Status	Character
Call Me Lucky	2015	Documentary films clips & stills

Thanks

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
Cuckoo	2016	TV Series special thanks to - 1 episode
Way of the Morris	2011	Documentary special thanks
Made in Dagenham	2010	thanks
Fossil Detectives	2008	TV Series documentary thanks - 1 episode

Self

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Beyond Barricades	2016	Documentary post-production	Himself
Man in the Camo Jacket	2016	Documentary post-production	Himself
Trailblazers Of	2016	TV Series documentary	Himself
The 80s: Ten Years That Changed Britain	2016	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Musician & Left-wing activist
Question Time	1999-2015	TV Series	Himself
Death or Liberty	2015	Documentary	Himself
Urban Hymn	2015		Himself
Whatever Happened to Rock 'n' Roll?	2015	TV Movie	Himself
Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery	2015	TV Series documentary	Himself
Glastonbury 2015	2015	TV Series	Himself
Panorama	2010-2015	TV Series documentary	Himself - Panelist (Singer / Activist) / Himself
Call Me Lucky	2015	Documentary	Himself
Walking Through History	2015	TV Series documentary	Himself - Songwriter and Activist
The Life of Rock with Brian Pern	2014	TV Mini-Series	Himself
Newsnight	2010-2014	TV Series	Himself - Contributor / Himself
Billy Bragg Live at the Union Chapel London	2014		Himself
Austin City Limits	1999-2013	TV Series documentary	Himself
Loose Women	2013	TV Series	Himself
Q&A	2012	TV Series	Himself - Panelist
Let Fury Have the Hour	2012	Documentary	Himself
Last Shop Standing	2012	Documentary	Himself
Democracy Now!	2011-2012	TV Series	Himself
Punk Britannia	2012	TV Series documentary	Himself
Evidently... John Cooper Clarke	2012	Documentary	Himself - Singer / Songwriter
10 O'Clock Live	2012	TV Series	Himself - Musician
This Week	2010-2011	TV Series	Himself
Way of the Morris	2011	Documentary	Himself
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune	2010	Documentary	Musician / Activist
Dispatches	2010	TV Series documentary	Himself
Alan Davies' Teenage Revolution	2010	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
I'm in a Rock 'n' Roll Band	2010	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
Strummerville	2010	Documentary	Himself
Late Review	2010	TV Series	Himself - Panelist / Performer
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls	2009	Documentary	Himself
Breaking Rocks	2009	Documentary
The One Show	2009	TV Series	Himself
The Wright Stuff	2007-2008	TV Series	Himself - Guest Panelist
Fossil Detectives	2008	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Interface	2008	TV Series
Sunday AM	2008	TV Series	Himself - Musician
Late Night with Conan O'Brien	2002-2008	TV Series	Himself
Q with Jian Ghomeshi	2008	TV Series	Himself - Guest
British Film Forever	2007	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
The Sunday Programme	2007	TV Series	Himself
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	2006-2007	TV Series	Himself - Guest / Himself - Musical Guest
Canada A.M.	2006	TV Series	Himself
Folk Britannia	2006	TV Series documentary	Himself
Glastonbury	2006	Documentary	Himself
Breakfast	2005	TV Series	Himself
If I Were Prime Minister	2005	TV Short	Himself
This Machine Kills Fascists	2005	Video documentary	Narrator
Channel 4 News	2004	TV Series	Himself
Get Up, Stand Up	2003	TV Series documentary	Himself - Interviewee
Enough Rope with Andrew Denton	2003	TV Series	Himself
Never Mind the Buzzcocks	1996-2002	TV Series	Himself
The Punk Years	2002	TV Series documentary	Himself
Jonathan Dimbleby	1997-2002	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Audience Member
Top of the Pops	1985-2002	TV Series	Himself
Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song	2002	Documentary	Himself
Freedom Highway: Songs that Shaped a Century	2001	Documentary	Himself
Vote 2001	2001	TV Movie	Himself
I Love 1980's	2001	TV Series documentary	Himself
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl	2001	TV Special documentary	Himself
The Internationale	2000	Documentary short	Himself
Late Show with David Letterman	1998-2000	TV Series	Himself / Herself
Man in the Sand	1999	Video documentary	Himself
Unzipped	1999	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Panel	1999	TV Series	Himself
The Great Hunger: The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan	1997	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Radio One Story	1997	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Sessions at West 54th	1997	TV Series documentary	Himself
Harry Hill	1997	TV Series	Himself
The Jack Docherty Show	1997	TV Series	Himself - Guest
TFI Friday	1997	TV Series	Himself
Later... With Jools Holland	1996	TV Series	Himself
Garbage	1996	Documentary	Himself
Without Walls	1994	TV Series documentary	Himself
The All New Alexei Sayle Show	1994	TV Series	Himself
Late Night with David Letterman	1989-1991	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Guest
Time Capsule	1990	Video documentary	Himself
Great Journeys: Silver Tracks	1989	Documentary	Himself - Presenter
Scoff	1988	TV Series	Himself
Which Side Are You on Billy Bragg?	1988	Video documentary	Himself
Forty Years at the I.C.A.	1987	TV Series	Himself
Turn It Up: Days Like These	1986		Himself
TV Eye	1986	TV Series	Himself

Archive Footage

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Moyers & Company	2013	TV Series	Himself - Musician / Activist
Democracy Now!	2012	TV Series	Himself

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#	Quote
1	It's really a comment on the amount of information we get now; I mean, the ubiquity of the Internet of the 24-hour news cycle - it's constant information all the time, trying to make sense of it. What does it mean if they do find the Higgs Boson? I don't know, you know? They tell us it's incredibly important. Is it incredibly important? So it's really a response on that, talking about the hectoring of the hexperts you know, there's someone every night on telly telling you emphatically what their truth is, how do you weigh that up?
2	This is not a time for celebration. The death of Margaret Thatcher is nothing more than a salient reminder of how Britain got into the mess that we are in today. Of why ordinary working people are no longer able to earn enough from one job to support a family; of why there is a shortage of decent affordable housing... of why cynicism and greed became the hallmarks of our society. Raising a glass to the death of an infirm old lady changes none of this. The only real antidote to cynicism is activism. Don't celebrate - organise!
3	Now I realize I was naive to think The Clash could change the world by singing about it. But it wasn't so much their lyrics as what they stood for and the actions they took. That became really important to me. Phil Collins might write a song about the homeless, but if he doesn't have the action to go with it he's just exploiting that for a subject. I got that from The Clash, and I try to remain true to that tradition as best I can.
4	[on Levon Helm] The greatest singing drummer that ever lived.
5	The Internet allows me to write a topical song on a Friday, debut it on a Saturday, record it on a Sunday and make available for a free download on a Monday.
6	This year I think I'll be voting Liberal Democrat because they've got the best manifesto. I like what they're saying about proportional representation, I like what they're saying about Europe... if I was a floating voter I'd be floating towards them. I think Labour have taken the white working class vote for granted. I think the idea of a three party race is more interesting than a two party race. (In 2010)
7	Everything that was cool about British rock in the '60s, everything from The Beatles, The Stones (The Rolling Stones), The Who, The Small Faces, Led Zeppelin, all those guys learned to play music by playing skiffle. It was open to everyone, it was utterly democratic, it was three chords and the truth.
8	One of the great things about the 1980s was that there was a return to lyrics. Bands like the Smiths were writing more literate pop. Sometimes too much emphasis is put on hook and melody. Some bands' songs are totally vacuous.
9	It is often the songs that have less meaning that people tend to attach their meaning to.
10	The first lyrical poetry that moved me was the final verse of Mr Tambourine Man. That is such a great line of poetry.
11	"Kiss me or would you rather live in a land where the soap won't lather" (lyric)



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