^ A kitchen is a room…
^ A kitchen is a room…
^ Wilco and Billy Bragg worked on the 1998 album Mermaid Avenue…
^ From Night to Day…
^ From steel to iron…
^ Stars are found in space…
^ From one set of working class revolutionaries to another, from The Levellers to The Diggers who are mentioned in this song…
^ Paul Weller and Billy Bragg formed The Red Wedge, so to…
^ From January to February…
^ an alliterative link from Franz Ferdinand to Billy Bragg…
From Wilko Johnson to Wilco…
From I Spy to the album Life’s a Riot with Spy vs Spy…
A bubble link…
Bonus unnecessarily complicated link: From Boy in the Bubble to I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles, which is the club anthem for West Ham FC; Billy Bragg is a West Ham fan, so…
A town link…
“La la means I love you” is also a lyric in The Saturday Boy…
If you’re not modest you might brag, so to Billy Bragg…
The Little Red Book was a book of quotations by Chairman Mao. He had a five-year plan called ‘The Great Leap Forward’ which leads to ‘Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards’…
Albion is an old name for England, so to a new England…
A road link…
From a blondie to a brunette…
Keeping to the artistic theme…
From soldier to war…
….which was written by Norman Whitfield. He’s name-checked in this song…
Moloko is Russian for milk….
Jeane was covered by Billy Bragg…