I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

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• Billy Bragg:

  I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

• Billy Bragg:

  I was in a little punk band and we put out a few punk records that weren't very political, at all.

• Billy Bragg:

  I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them th

• Billy Bragg:

  I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from s

• Billy Bragg:

  In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involve

• Billy Bragg:

  It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I

• Billy Bragg:

  Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go

• Billy Bragg:

  My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.

• Billy Bragg:

  My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.

• Billy Bragg:

  So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs