BBC4 tonight - Rock Island Line.....

[Deleted member 39494]

The Song That Made Britain Rock.

Billy Bragg on the song that kickstarted the British teenager and Rock 'n' Roll as we know it.

4 part series with next week Woody Guthrie in the spotlight.

BBC4 at its absolute best

 

[Abu Dhabi Red and White]

The Song That Made Britain Rock.

Billy Bragg on the song that kickstarted the British teenager and Rock 'n' Roll as we know it.

4 part series with next week Woody Guthrie in the spotlight.

BBC4 at its absolute best

Brit legend is Woody.

 

[Deleted member 39494]

Brit legend is Woody.

Billy Bragg likes this

 

[Big Duke Six]

Billy Bragg's a wanker.

 

[Deleted member 39494]

Billy Bragg's a wanker.

Of course he is......played all those benefit gigs for the miners during the 84/85 strike.

I bet the families he helped to put food on the tables with the money raised didn't think that.

Anyway, your opinion....

 

[chriswallace85]

Can't stand Billy Bragg.

 

[riffraff]

1 A New England.
2 The Saturday Boy.
3 Sexuality.
4 Levi’s Stubbs’s Tears.
5 Greetings For The New Brunette (or whatever it’s called).

 

[Quench]

1 A New England.
2 The Saturday Boy.
3 Sexuality.
4 Levi’s Stubbs’s Tears.
5 Greetings For The New Brunette (or whatever it’s called).

I love the lyrics to the Saturday Boy, perfectly captures what it was like to be 15, well for me anyway.

Billy Bragg and Joe Henry released an album of recordings made in railway stations a couple of years ago, Rock Island Line is the first track, It's a pretty good album if you like american folk and Joe Henry has a great voice

 

[riffraff]

I love the lyrics to the Saturday Boy, perfectly captures what it was like to be 15, well for me anyway.

Billy Bragg and Joe Henry released an album of recordings made in railway stations a couple of years ago, Rock Island Line is the first track, It's a pretty good album if you like american folk and Joe Henry has a great voice

I nivver made the first team
I just made the first team laugh
She nivver came to the phone
She was always in the bath.

How anyone can’t admire that is beyond me.

 

[Quench]

I nivver made the first team
I just made the first team laugh
She nivver came to the phone
She was always in the bath.

How anyone can’t admire that is beyond me.

He’s written some cracking non-political songs. Brewing Up is a really good album. The Myth of Trust is another cracking song off the album

 

[Deleted member 39494]

1 A New England.
2 The Saturday Boy.
3 Sexuality.
4 Levi’s Stubbs’s Tears.
5 Greetings For The New Brunette (or whatever it’s called).

Not forgetting "The Milkman of Human Kindness"

 

[millfield ftm]

1 A New England.
2 The Saturday Boy.
3 Sexuality.
4 Levi’s Stubbs’s Tears.
5 Greetings For The New Brunette (or whatever it’s called).

Good u tube clip , bill bailey ( big Bragg fan) doing Billy Bragg impersonation, unisex chipshop !!

 

[Sam Handwich]

Absolutely love Sulk.
Also like If You Ever Leave

 

[Quench]

2nd part of this series was on tonight; all about Woody Guthrie, turning out to be a really dlgoodbseries. BBC at its best

 

[Mak70]

Brilliant programme tonight. Some amazing footage. Loved it.

 

[Dave Herbal]

My dad loved Lonnie. I booked us tickets to see his last tour and the useless fucker died 2 days before

 

[Big Duke Six]

My dad loved Lonnie. I booked us tickets to see his last tour and the useless fucker died 2 days before

Lonnie or your fatha?

 

[Dave Herbal]

Lonnie or your fatha?

Lonnie. Years later I saw Leapy Lee in Benidorm and his entire set was Lonnie songs. I rounded on him in the bar and he agreed Lonnie was a great man.

 

[bernardbresslaw]

1 A New England.
2 The Saturday Boy.
3 Sexuality.
4 Levi’s Stubbs’s Tears.
5 Greetings For The New Brunette (or whatever it’s called).

"Pay no more than 39p for this record"

 

[weebil64]

1 A New England.
2 The Saturday Boy.
3 Sexuality.
4 Levi’s Stubbs’s Tears.
5 Greetings For The New Brunette (or whatever it’s called).

Waiting for the Great Leap Forward.