Never heard of “Billy Bragg”. Sounds like an old limey commie to me. Bragg was a Confederate Rebel. Billy’s been cancelled.
Here he is singing “The Internationale” at Pete Seeger’s 90th Birthday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N7_LyGEEAw
Not familiar too much with Bragg’s music
though years ago I saw him as well as
the Fleshtones opening up for Echo
and the Bunnymen.
Beatles had their own tale of being
shafted by the “Taxman”
>>The previous month, a socialist Labour government led by Harold Wilson was re-elected with a landslide majority in the UK and immediately upped tax rates for the country’s highest earners. It was a move that profoundly affected The Beatles. That it was instigated by a prime minister who only a year previously had been instrumental in awarding the four Beatles MBEs – for their services to entertainment as well as helping bolster the British economy – came with a bittersweet
irony.
In the UK’s currency of the time, there were 20 shillings in a pound; and under the Labour government, The Beatles began paying the top tax rate, which meant that for every pound they earned, 90% of it – 19 shillings and six-pence to be exact – would be taken by the government.
George Harrison was more interested in the group’s business affairs at that point than the other Beatles, and was alarmed to learn that the fruits of their labors were being taken; a situation that might even lead to the group’s bankruptcy. He was also concerned that the government would use the money to fund the manufacture of weapons. As a direct consequence, he vented his frustration by writing “Taxman,” which had the distinction of being The Beatles’ first protest song. (Although the song was credited to Harrison alone, he did have a little assistance: “George wrote it, and I helped him with it,” John Lennon revealed in 1968, later adding that “I threw in a few one-liners to help the song along because that’s what he asked for.”)
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/the-beatles-taxman-feature/