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IB Visual Arts Course Book: Oxford IB Diploma Programme

Jayson Paterson, Simon Poppy and Andrew Vaughan

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Strengthen potential in IB Visual Arts. Matched to the updated IB Visual Arts Guide for first...

James Dean Bradfield recommended track To Have and to Have Not by Billy Bragg in Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy by Billy Bragg in Music (curated)

Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy by Billy Bragg

1983 | Folk, Punk, Singer-Songwriter

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To Have and to Have Not by Billy Bragg

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"This reminds me of that lonely summer in between comprehensive and college, where you see people everywhere with girlfriends, and learning how to drive, and you don’t feel as if you’re going anywhere yourself. “Up in the morning and out to school…” It sounds a bit adolescent, but sometimes the songs that really affect you are the ones that mainline into your soul as a teenager. It gave me some hope. This song made me feel like I could take on the world to a certain degree. We’d written our first song in 1985 and hearing this made me realise: “Wow, you can write a song with quite basic ingredients.” And regardless of any tinpot history that we may have with Mr Bragg, I’ll always be grateful to him for this song."

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