Wouldn't that be fun. No aliens can come save us. Copyright 1997 The Associated Press. For once, Billy Bragg was overshadowed at his own show. For more than 15 years, Bragg has used the stage as a pulpit to preach against the policies of Britain's Conservative government, in power since 1979.
Pop is about entertainment, and politics is about debate.
I see similarities in the fact that they have so much hope invested in them. It's a great burden. But Britons know that Bragg is very much a London boy. Every year at school the career master would come and take us on a day-trip to the Ford Motor Co. at Dagenham, which is the main employer in our area. I had to sort of define myself as a socialist.