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Classic Album: Billy Bragg - Life's A Spy

Steve speaks to Billy Bragg about his 1983 album Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy

In the second part of Steve's Classic Album series, he speaks to Billy Bragg about his 1983 album 'Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy'.

This was Bragg's first album. The original album played at 45 rpm rather than the more usual 33.3 rpm, contained only seven songs and lasted for only 15 minutes and 57 seconds.

However, rather than being classified as an EP, it qualified for the UK albums chart and reached number 30 in January 1984.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 7 Nov 2018 16:00

Music Played

  • The Jam

    All Around The World

    • Polydor.
  • Johnny Marr

    Spiral Cities

    • ADA UK / Warner.
  • Bad Religion

    Endtropy

  • Loyle Carner

    Ottolenghi (feat. Jordan Rakei)

    • AMF Records/Virgin EMI.
  • Tori Amos

    Professional Widow (It's Got To Be Big)

    • East West Records.
  • Adrianne Lenker

    Symbol

    • Saddle Creek.
  • Pip Blom

    Pussycat

    • NICE SWAN RECORDS.
  • The House of Love

    Loneliness Is A Gun (Radio 1 Session, 2 Apr 1989)

  • The Hives

    Hate To Say I Told You So

    • BURNING HEART.
  • Sharon Van Etten

    Comeback Kid

    • Jagjaguar.
  • Major Lazer

    Can't Stop Now (feat. Mr. Vegas & Jovi Rockwell)

    • Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do.
    • COOPERATIVE MUSIC.
    • 3.
  • Derek Martin

    Breakaway

  • Self Esteem

    Rollout

    • Fiction Records.
  • The Mysterines

    Hormone

  • Ramones

    Babysitter

  • The Sundays

    Here's Where The Story Ends

    • Rough Trade.
  • R贸is铆n Murphy

    Jacuzzi Rollercoaster

    • The Vinyl Factory.
  • Kap Bambino

    New Breath

  • Teleman

    Family Of Aliens

    • Moshi Moshi Recordings.
  • Ye

    All Falls Down (feat. Syleena Johnson)

    • The College Dropout.
    • Roc-A-Fella Records.
  • Steve Mason

    Stars Around My Heart

    • Domino Recording Co. Ltd..
  • Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

    Mainland

    • Sub Pop.
  • Marianne Faithfull

    They Come At Night

  • Joy Division

    Isolation

    • London.
  • Desperate Journalist

    Cedars

  • Matthew Dear & Tegan and Sara

    Horses

    • Ghostly International.
  • Dennis Brown

    Wolf And Leopards

    • DEB Music.
  • Chapterhouse

    Pearl

    • WHIRLPOOL.
    • DEDICATED.
  • Billy Bragg

    Lovers Town Revisited

    • Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy.
    • Charisma.
  • Billy Bragg

    To Have and to Have Not

    • Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy.
    • Charisma Records.
  • Billy Bragg

    A New England (6 Music Live Recording, Camden Crawl, 2009)

  • The Concretes

    You Can't Hurry Love

    • Licking Fingers.
  • Anna Calvi

    As A Man

    • DOMINO RECORDING CO. LTD..
  • Bill Ryder-Jones

    And Then There's You

    • Domino.
  • Television Personalities

    Part Time Punks

  • Noname

    Blaxploitation

    • Noname.
  • B.E.D

    White Coats

    • Heavenly Recordings.
  • Nico

    I'll Keep It With Mine

    • CHELSEA GIRL.
    • Polydor.
  • The Touts

    Can't Blame Me

    • 成人快手town Records.

Broadcast

  • Wed 7 Nov 2018 16:00