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Stephen William Bragg (born 20 December 1957), known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and activist who blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes. Billy Bragg often plays and speaks at the Tolpuddle Martyrs festival. Billy Bragg Close, a street in Dagenham, is named in his honor, and he currently lives in Dorset. Billy Bragg music career has lasted more than 30 years

In 1977, Billy Bragg formed the punk rock/pub rock band Riff Raff, and toured London's pubs and clubs. The band released a series of singles, which did not receive wide exposure. Billy Bragg became disillusioned with his music career, and in May, 1981 joined the British Army as a trooper destined for the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars of the Royal Armoured Corps. After a few months, Billy Bragg bought his way out of the army for 175 and returned home, having finished his training, but not joining his regiment.

Billy Bragg began performing frequent concerts and busking around London, playing solo with an electric guitar. Billy Bragg's demo tape initially got no response from the record industry, but by pretending to be a television repair man, he got into the office of Charisma Records' A&R man Peter Jenner. Jenner liked the tape, but the company was near bankruptcy and had no budget to sign new artists. Billy Bragg got an offer to record more demos for a music publisher, so Jenner agreed to release them as a record. Life's a Riot with Spy Vs. Spy was released in July, 1983 by Charisma's new imprint, Utility. Within months, Charisma had been taken over by Virgin Records and Jenner, who had been laid off, became Bragg's manager.

In 1984, he released Brewing Up with Billy Bragg, a mixture of political songs (e.g., "It Says Here") and songs of unrequited love (e.g., "The Saturday Boy"). The following year Billy Bragg released Between the Wars, an EP of political songs that included a cover version of Leon Rosselson's "The World Turned Upside Down". In 1986, Billy Bragg released Talking with the Taxman about Poetry, which became his first Top 10 album. Back to Basics is a 1987 collection of Billy Braggs first three releases Life's A Riot WithSpy Vs. Spy, Brewing Up with Billy Bragg, and the Between The Wars EP. Billy Bragg released his fourth album, Workers Playtime, in September 1988. With this album, Billy Bragg added a backing band and accompaniment. In May 1990, Billy Bragg released the political mini-LP, The Internationale.

The album Don't Try This at Home was released in September 1991, and included the song, "Sexuality", which reached the UK Singles Chart. Billy Bragg released the album, William Bloke, in 1996 after taking time off to help raise his son. Around that time, Nora Guthrie (daughter of American folk artist Woody Guthrie) asked Billy Bragg to set some of her father's unrecorded lyrics to music. The result was collaboration with the band Wilco and Natalie Merchant. They released the album Mermaid Avenue in 1998, and Mermaid Avenue Vol. II in 2000.

At the 2005 Beautiful Days Festival in Devon, Billy Bragg teamed up with the Levellers to perform a short set of songs by The Clash in celebration of Joe Strummer's birthday. In 2007, Billy Bragg moved closer to his English folk music roots by joining the WOMAD-inspired collective. Billy Bragg released his album, Mr. Love & Justice, in March 2008. This was the second Bragg album to be named after a book by Colin MacInnes.

Billy Bragg has been involved with grassroots political movements, and this is often reflected in his lyrics. Billy Bragg backed the 1984 miners' strike, and the following year he formed the musician alliance Red Wedge, which promoted the Labour Party and discouraged young people from voting for the Conservative Party in the 1987 general election. During the 1980s, Billy Bragg travelled to the Soviet Union a few times, after Mikhail Gorbachev had started to promote Perestroika and Glasnost.

Billy Bragg has developed an interest in English national identity, apparent in his 2002 album England, Half-English and his 2006 book The Progressive Patriot. The book expressed his view that English socialists can reclaim patriotism from the right wing. Billy Bragg supported the pro-Iraq war candidate Oona King against the anti-war George Galloway in the 2005 general election in the constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow, due to a belief that splitting the left-wing vote would allow the Conservative Party to win the seat.

In January 2010 Billy Bragg announced that he had decided to withhold his income tax as a protest against the prospective decision by Royal Bank of Scotland to pay bonuses in the region of 1.5 billion to staff working in its investment banking business. The protest was sparked by the appearance of Stephen Hester, the RBS Chief Executive, before the Treasury Select Committee on 12 January 2010. On the eve of the 2010 General Election, Billy Bragg announced that he would be voting for the Liberal Democrats because "they've got the best manifesto". Billy Bragg is a board director and key spokesman for the Featured Artists Coalition, a body representing the rights of recording artists.

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