Still Suitable for Miners: Billy Bragg : The Official Biography - Couverture souple

Collins, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0753502321 ISBN 13 : 9780753502327

Editeur : Virgin Books, 1998

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

He was a punk. He was a soldier. He was a flag-waver for both the Labour Party and the miners. He is Billy Bragg, best known as a passionate protest folk singer and a tireless promoter of political and humanitarian causes all across the world. His life encapsulates so much about his generation: born in the late '50s, passions forged by punk, politics shaped by Thatcherism, hope provided by the end of the Cold War and ideology galvanised by what he sees as a post-ideological 21st century.
Serious about compassion and accountability, he likes a laugh too, and is enduringly popular.
Billy Bragg remains to this day a much-loved songwriter and performer whose campaigning has now spanned four decades and shows no sign of relenting. Still Suitable For Miners is his official story, updated for the 30th anniversary of his debut album, Life’s A Riot with Spy Vs Spy, and including the recording of his tenth album as a solo artist, Tooth and Nail.

Biographie de l'auteur

Andrew Collins is a writer and broadcaster. Having worked for NME, Empire and Q, he regularly broadcasts on Radio 2, Radio 4 and 6 Music. He is Film Editor of Radio Times, co-writer of BBC sitcoms Grass and Not Going Out, and author of Where Did It All Go Right? and Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virgin Books
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0753502321
• ISBN 13: 9780753502327
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible