Billy Bragg: Still Suitable for Miners - Softcover

Collins, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075355271X ISBN 13: 9780753552711

Publisher: Virgin Books, 2018

Synopsis

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. Billy’s 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 galvanized 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 is a much-loved songwriter and performer whose campaigning has spanned four decades and shows no sign of relenting. Still Suitable For Miners is his official story, updated with a new chapter covering the 2017 elections, Brexit and Corbynism.

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Collins is a writer and broadcaster. Having worked for NME, Empire and Q, he is now 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.

Review:

"Love me or hate me. It's a great read." - - Billy Bragg

"Continuing from this book’s original conclusion when published in 1998, Collins revisits the selfstyled leftie firebrand . . . daubing more colour onto his affectionate portrait of one of music’s most likeable figures. . . . Bragg’s enthusiasm and humanity shines through, his commitment to family and home at the heart of almost all he does. . . . A worthy companion to some of the most palatable protest songs of the last quarter century." —Record Collector

About this edition

• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 075355271X
• ISBN 13: 9780753552711
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400