
My Soundtrack: Billy Bragg
The 'Bard of Barking' runs us through the songs of his youth, and the greatest track ever written.

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The 'Bard of Barking' runs us through the songs of his youth, and the greatest track ever written.

The author of the Inspector Rebus books on writing to music, and living inside his own head.

Fifty years ago this month, “Maggie May” became the biggest single in America, ultimately dooming Rod’s new band the Faces

The Showtime series was set to star Kathryn Hahn in the lead role

The song appears in a new holiday campaign for Gap

“I feel great responsibility in representing marginalised queer people in rural America who are raised on country and roots music but are repeatedly and systematically rejected by the correlating culture”

The singer’s five-song set featured four tracks from the upcoming album Equals as well as a Foy Vance cover.

Band’s renditions appear as part of Amazon Music’s [Re]dux playlist series

Band lands their Starship on the platform just in time for Rocktober

Band denies recent allegations against guitarist Jack Barakat made by women who claimed they were minors at the time