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  2. Billy Bragg - Wikipedia

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    Bragg was born in 1957 in Barking, Essex (later part of Greater London) [2] to Dennis Frederick Austin Bragg, an assistant sales manager to a Barking cap maker and milliner, and his wife Marie Victoria D'Urso, who was of Italian descent through her father. [3] [a] Bragg's father died of lung cancer in 1976, [4] and his mother died in 2011. [5]

  3. Mermaid Avenue - Wikipedia

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    Man in the Sand, a documentary about the collaboration between Billy Bragg and Wilco, was released in 1999. A DVD of the film is included in Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions . Bob Dylan tells in his autobiography that Woody Guthrie asked him to reach out to Guthrie's wife Margie and get the boxes of songs and poems that had been written ...

  4. Man in the Sand - Wikipedia

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    In 1995, Nora Guthrie asked English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg to create music to accompany lyrics written by her father, Woody Guthrie, decades earlier, and record an album. Bragg invited American band Wilco to back him on the recordings, and Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett from the band wrote music for additional Guthrie lyrics.

  5. 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Billy Bragg - AOL

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    Name Billy Bragg Best known for Being a bit of a commie. Current city Weymouth (UK) Really want to be in Haida Gwaii. There’s a festival there I’ve always wanted to play. Excited about The ...

  6. Billy Bragg rewrites lyrics to Oliver Anthony’s viral ‘right ...

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    Billy Bragg has released a musical response to country singer Oliver Anthony ... Bragg began his music career playing benefit concerts during the 1984 miners’ strike and has long been an ardent ...

  7. The Million Things That Never Happened - Wikipedia

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    Bragg describes the album as "first pandemic blues album of our times but also a heartfelt paean to human resilience." [1] The album was produced by Romeo Stodart, of the Magic Numbers, with Dave Izumi. The instrumentation includes a 1960s mellotron, which provided a "wonderful kind of woozy, dreamlike sound", according to Bragg. [2]

  8. Billy Crystal Shares the Secret to His 54-Year Marriage to ...

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    Billy Crystal and his wife producer Janice Crystal attend premiere of Apple TV's "Before" in New York City on October 16, 2024. Billy Crystal has simple advice for more than 50 years of marriage.

  9. Mermaid Avenue Vol. II - Wikipedia

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    Mermaid Avenue Vol. II is a 2000 album of previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written and performed by British singer Billy Bragg and American band Wilco.