Book Review: Billy Bragg “Billy Bragg- A People’s History”

Book Review: Billy Bragg “Billy Bragg- A People’s History”

This book, which feels like a labour of love on all parts, compiles 700 fan memories into a chronological community narrative of Billy Bragg’s life and influence. From his start in Barking, Essex, through the founding of his early band Riff Raff, the punk and post-punk scenes of the late 1970s and early 1980s, his solo breakthrough with “Life’s a Riot with Spy vs Spy” in 1983, and into the era of Red Wedge and his enduring role as a politically …