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19 Dec 06 - 05:19 PM (#1914091) Subject: Billy Bragg's birfday From: The Shambles Billy Bragg was born this day (20 December) in Barking Essex in 1957. |
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19 Dec 06 - 06:15 PM (#1914145) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birfday From: SussexCarole Good job he's not behind you! |
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19 Dec 06 - 06:15 PM (#1914147) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birfday From: The Shambles Did you just agree with something I said? |
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19 Dec 06 - 06:16 PM (#1914149) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: Big Mick Sorry, I meant to say Happy Birthday, Billy. |
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20 Dec 06 - 05:01 AM (#1914508) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: Wolfgang He has writen some very fine songs. Wolfgang |
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20 Dec 06 - 05:05 AM (#1914512) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: Liz the Squeak Got this thing about the letter B though.... Billy Bragg from Barking now lives in Burton Bradstock, only a few miles from the village I grew up in. LTS |
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20 Dec 06 - 07:52 AM (#1914594) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: GUEST,Penguin Egg He can't sing. Why doesn't he get someone else to sing his songs? |
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20 Dec 06 - 09:13 AM (#1914676) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: GUEST,Cats I have just finished his autobiography and it really is superb. Highly recommended. Happy Birthday Billy. |
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20 Dec 06 - 10:57 AM (#1914810) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: Paco Rabanne Autobiography!!!!!!!!!! He's only a boy! |
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20 Dec 06 - 11:05 AM (#1914822) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: GUEST,younger than Billy B he'll be 50 a year and 1 day before me !!! ha !!! old grey haired lefty agitpunkfolk git !!!!! |
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20 Dec 06 - 11:12 AM (#1914836) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: Scrump It seems that anyone famous can 'write' their autobiography these days, even if they've hardly lived (I put 'write' in quotes as I suspect many of these books are ghost-written). Currently in the UK shops are 'autobiographies' of such people as actress/pop singer Billie Piper, singer (?)/'celeb' Kerry Katona and comedian Peter Kay, none of whom is yet out of their 20s (AFAIK). No doubt their fans will lap them up though, or so the publishers hope. |
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20 Dec 06 - 02:04 PM (#1914976) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: Geordie-Peorgie His real name's Stephen Bragg Aah divvent knaah why he changed it te Billy - mebbe it sounded more working class hero than Stephen - Mebbe he wez just actin' the goat. |
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20 Dec 06 - 02:23 PM (#1914987) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: Wolfgang Stephen William Bragg Wolfgang |
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20 Dec 06 - 02:52 PM (#1914999) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: fat B****rd Happy Birthday Billy. |
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20 Dec 06 - 03:14 PM (#1915013) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: GUEST Happy Birthday Billy. Some of you have some major issues you need to deal with, relax over Christmas and try and de-stress |
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20 Dec 06 - 06:56 PM (#1915205) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: Ruth Archer Happy birthday, Uncle Bill! |
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21 Dec 06 - 06:26 AM (#1915554) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: Scrump He can't sing. Why doesn't he get someone else to sing his songs? Kirsty MacColl recorded "A New England". Any others? |
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30 Apr 08 - 04:29 AM (#2329475) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: GUEST,The Input Valentine's Day Is Over by June Tabor and The Oyster Band Rumours Of War by June Tabor |
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30 Apr 08 - 04:48 AM (#2329487) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: The Borchester Echo Norma Waterson: St Swithin's Day Eliza Carthy: King James' Version Everybody and their collective dogs: Between The Wars |
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30 Apr 08 - 04:59 AM (#2329496) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: GUEST,The Input I saw Billy Bragg duetting at Glastonbury years ago with Paul Brady. It was a great gig. He was supposed to have done the gig with Nanci Griffith but she cried off with a sore throat. I suspect she didn't really want to be 'outsung' by the Bragg! :-) |
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30 Apr 08 - 06:26 PM (#2330180) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: GUEST,Jonny Sunshine Eminently sensible article by Billy in the guardian today here |
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01 May 08 - 12:39 AM (#2330307) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: GUEST,ifor Between The Wars is such a fine song!!! Very moving. IFOR |
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01 May 08 - 05:17 AM (#2330400) Subject: RE: Billy Bragg's birthday (20 December 1957) From: Folk Form # 1 As much as I aadmire Bragg's sentiments, I can't get worked up by English nationalism. All nationalism is by it's nature, exclusive, and by celebrating nationalism, gives an exagerated view of one's own difference from other people. We should be looking at things that unite us rather then seperate us. Why not a day celebrating rationality and reason. For this reason, I gave St George's Day a miss this year as I have done other years. I realise the Scots have a strong feeling of identity; but is this a good thing? (I am half-Scots myself.) |