I admit to following English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg on Facebook. Here are a couple of neat items I got from his newsfeed recently.
First, a quote of his from a Guardian article about him:
The market's like fire, you know? Constrain it, harness it, and it'll provide you with warmth and light and heat for your cooking … Let it rip, and it'll destroy everything you hold dear.Then, on a completely different note, this post on Facebook:
Finally found time over the weekend to play with my Xmas present - a 35mm film negative scanner. Had a lot of fun digitising photos from the 1970s. Much mirth about my bad haircuts and sartorial choices, but here's one that had my son green with envy: me having just received tickets to see the Who at Charlton and the Stones at Earls Court in June 1976.
![Teenaged Billy Bragg in 1976 with concert tickets](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW0rIn3JQwZ285Qc5WbFxPIr4tSSFBZ4D37B9xkSqOYENwX7tYZJAf-vFlozvFmzPCP5GO9U4ybYplcVrChZZ2znEHrilVlMxZsM0GjbiF7G9PPpHLCGvPMWYUvzw93flOIxXXnHBAjoE/s400/billy-bragg-1976.jpg)
Here's a more recent photo to show what he looks like these days.
2 comments:
Oh, gosh. Haven't thought of Billy Bragg since college!
"That's the price I pay for lovin' you the way I do..." still runs through my head on occasion.
I first saw Billy Bragg in a dive bar in Munich in 1986. I've been a fan ever since. But I've always been mystified by what he wore that night--an Izod polo shirt. The shirt just didn't seem to go with the lyrics at all.
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