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Radio with Pictures - 'Valentine's Day is Over' by Billy Bragg

Radio with Pictures - 'Valentine's Day is Over' by Billy Bragg
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Radio with Pictures - 'Valentine's Day is Over' by Billy Bragg
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In this 1987 Radio with Pictures excerpt, visiting English singer Billy Bragg performs a song in the Victoria University Student Union Hall. The Bard of Barking is intercut with Wellington street scenes: pensioners, punks, and pigeon feeding in a pre-bus lane Manners Mall. Taken from album Workers Playtime (1988), Bragg’s Valentine’s Day song is far from a Hallmark card, with droll rhyming couplets telling of a bruised, but defiant lover: “For the girl with the hour glass figure time runs out...

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1987
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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/radio-with-pictures-valentines-day-by-billy-bragg-1987
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billy bragg / manners mall / victoria university / student union / pigeon / valentines day / punk / eighties / 80s / gumboots / gumboot / hunter lounge

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