Billy Bragg Protests Rupert Murdoch
Billy Bragg sings a song recently written in reaction to the Rupert Murdoch scandal back home in England.
It eloquently gives props to the people of Liverpool, who have been boycotting The Sun ever since the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster killed almost one hundred people and injured hundreds at a football/soccer match. The skewed sensationalistic reporting of the incident horrified the port city. Bragg reasons in the song, “Never Buy the Sun”, that the Scousers (as the Liverpudlians are known after a local dish) are the only ones who can “can hang there with their heads high”.Read more at PopMatters
What an amazing show of compassion...the people of Liverpool really did stand up for their beliefs & their fellow man.
ReplyDeleteI love Billy. I was at Hyde Park in London when he protested bank bailouts by announcing that he would withhold his taxes. He also gave a great performance at the Toronto Day of Action during the Harris years. He's a good man.
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