Bubbles also maintained his freelance output, producing designs for Peter Jenner ( Ian Dury and Billy Bragg's manager ), and others, creating a prodigious output by working for such bands, musicians and performers as Vivian Stanshall, Generation X, Big Star, Johnny Moped, Whirlwind, Billy Bragg, Clover, The Sinceros, Roger Chapman, Phillip Goodhand-Tait, Dr. Feelgood, Inner City Unit and The Psychedelic Furs.

Also in 1983, he recorded tracks including " In England and In Africa " and " Sing Like Billy Bragg " which were used as a ‘ demo ’ to secure a further Peel Session in 1984, where he performed three songs including " Hands Together Eyes Closed ".

* 1957 – Billy Bragg, English singer and songwriter

* A New England, a song by Billy Bragg, famously covered by Kirsty MacColl

While most punk rock uses the distorted guitars and noisy drumming that is derived from 1960s garage rock and 1970s pub rock, some punk bands incorporate elements from other subgenres, such as metal ( e. g., mid-1980s-era Discharge ) or folk rock ( Billy Bragg ).

* Sweet Honey in the Rock's 1981 album, Good News, contains tracks titled " Biko " and " Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto ", which compares Biko's death to that of Chilean musician Victor Jara and was covered by Billy Bragg in 1992.

*" Sexuality " ( Billy Bragg song )

Such songwriters as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg, Jeff Tweedy and Tom Paxton have acknowledged Guthrie as a major influence.

Guthrie's unrecorded written lyrics housed at the Archives have been the starting point of several albums including the Wilco and Billy Bragg albums Mermaid Avenue and Mermaid Avenue Vol.

English anti-folk musician Billy Bragg is one of several artists influenced by Guthrie.

Musicians performing over the course of the conference included Arlo Guthrie, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, Pete Seeger, Ramblin ' Jack Elliott, the Indigo Girls, Ellis Paul, Jimmy LaFave, Ani DiFranco, and others.

** Billy Bragg, British singer

He has worked as a session musician and writing collaborator with artists including The Pretenders, Bryan Ferry, Pet Shop Boys, Billy Bragg, Black Grape, Talking Heads, Crowded House, and Beck.

They produced guitars such as the Steer, popularized by guitarist Billy Bragg.

The show contained his popular music parodies ( such as Unisex Chip Shop, a Billy Bragg tribute which he performed with Billy Bragg at the 2005 Glastonbury Festival ), " three men in a pub " jokes ( including one in the style of Geoffrey Chaucer ) and deconstructions of television themes such as Countdown and The Magic Roundabout.

* Riff Raff, a band formed by Billy Bragg

Fronted by Billy Bragg ( whose 1985 Jobs for Youth tour had been a prototype of sorts for Red Wedge ), Paul Weller and The Communards lead singer Jimmy Somerville, they put on concert tours and appeared in the media, adding their support to the Labour Party campaign.

However, the festival also welcomes anyone who the organisers believe ' speaks for justice ', and has recently had Anita Roddick, Peter Tatchell, Bill Drummond and Billy Bragg sharing their thoughts.

Ian McLagan went on to perform with artists such as Bonnie Raitt, the Rolling Stones, David Lindley and his band El Rayo-X among others, and more recently Billy Bragg.

" Billy Bragg also mentions Stoke-on-Trent as one of the places that the character in his song " Rotting On Remand " is sent to.

Woody Guthrie wrote the lyrics for " Hoodoo Voodoo ", a song later performed by Wilco and Billy Bragg.

When the word ballad appears in the title of a song, as for example in The Beatles's " The Ballad of John and Yoko " or Billy Joel's " The Ballad of Billy the Kid ", the folk-music sense is generally implied.

Bo Diddley himself said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother was familiar with, while harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold once said in an interview that it was originally the name of a local comedian that Leonard Chess borrowed for the song title and artist name for Bo Diddley's first single, and guitar craftsman Ed Roman reported that another ( unspecified ) source says it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.

This song would later be adapted into " Christmas Is All Around " and sung by the character of Billy Mack in Richard Curtis ' 2003 film Love Actually, in which Grant also stars.

Billy Joel famously plays the harmonica, in addition to his piano, on his signature song, " Piano Man ".

* Jackson ( song ), written by Jerry Leiber and Billy Edd Wheeler, and made famous by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash

* " Leningrad " ( song ), 1989 song by Billy Joel

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

The song has been covered by artists such as Geri Halliwell, Megadeth, Jessica Simpson, Lil ' Kim, Little Birdy, Billy Ray Cyrus, Faster Pussycat, KMFDM, Symarip, Operation Ivy and the Del Rubio Triplets and The Supremes.

In 1989, Billy Joel mentioned the rivalry between the two companies in the song " We Didn't Start The Fire ".

Other leading acts included Billy Fury, Joe Brown, and Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, whose 1960 hit song " Shakin ' All Over " became a rock and roll standard.

Bearden turned to music, co-writing the hit song Sea Breeze, which was recorded by Billy Eckstine and Dizzy Gillespie ; it is still considered a jazz classic.

* The Suez Crisis is mentioned in the 1989 hit song " We Didn't Start the Fire " by Billy Joel.

American electronic pop duo, Microfilm, did a tribute song to Billy Mackenzie in 2009 titled " I'll Sing Like Billy Mackenzie in Heaven " which featured guitar and additional vocals by Scissor Sisters ' member Del Marquis.

The most famous recording of the song was credited to " Billy Murray and the Haydn Quartet ", even though Murray did not sing on it.

The confusion, nonetheless, is so pervasive that, when " Take Me Out to the Ball Game " was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America as one of the 365 top " Songs of the Century ", the song was credited to Billy Murray, implying his recording of it as having received the most votes among songs from the first decade.

The song has been used by as a National Anthem by the Scotland national rugby union team, ever since the winger, Billy Steele, encouraged his team-mates to sing it on the victorious Lions tour of South Africa in 1974.

Billy and Linden wrote the whole song and created a recorded demo all in one afternoon without either Dusty or Frank even knowing about it.

Deborah Frost, writer for Rolling Stone magazine, described in her book ZZ Top – Bad And Worldwide how Linden Hudson researched popular song tempos, then presented Billy Gibbons with the results of his studies.

In 1903 the song was used by the Billy Tea company for use as an advertising jingle, making it nationally famous.

* " Omaha ", a song written by Billy Joe Shaver and recorded by Waylon Jennings in his 1973 album Honky Tonk Heroes.