Billy Bragg has announced the upcoming release of a career-spanning box set

Billy Bragg’s career-spanning boxset The Roaring Forty|1983-2023, will be released on October 27, 2023. Commemorating 40 years of work, the 14-disc box set includes three of his LP sets and a single LP set.

With this collection, the punk rocker and folk singer celebrates his enduring musical legacy of beloved work, songwriting, protest songs and political activism. Roaring 40 | 1983-2023 Compiled by Bragg and made available in three formats. His 3-album collection of 40 tracks on 3 different green vinyls (also available on 2 CDs and as a digital set). His 14-CD boxset includes the songwriter’s 12 studio albums, non-album singles and his B-sides, session tracks, rare live recordings, collaborations, his Featuring over 300 of his tracks, including previously unreleased material from his illustrious career. .

The large format book included in the box set contains 40 images of specific objects from Billy’s career. NME Includes cover, original lyrics to ‘A Lover Sings’, Red Wedge manifesto, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles fan club membership card, and more from the Cockney vocalist himself.

“It seems like just yesterday that I handed John Peel a mushroom biryani and asked him to play his first record. My belief in the power of song is unwavering,” says Billy.

As well as being a fearless political campaigner and a prolific live performer, the 65-year-old has released 11 solo studio albums in his 40-year career. life is spy vs spy riot (1983); Brew up with Billy Bragg (1984); Talk about poetry with the taxman (1986); worker playtime (1988); International (1990); don’t try this at home (1991); William Broke (1996); England, half English (2002); Mr. Love & Justice (2008); teeth and nails (2013); a million things that never happened (2021); three albums with Wilco – mermaid avenue (1998); Mermaid Avenue Vol II (2000); Mermaid Avenue Vol III (2012); and one with Joe Henry– Shine a Light: Field Recordings of the Great American Railroad (2016). his mini album bridge not wall It was released in 2017, followed by an anthology series of his BBC performances. Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC 1983-2019 2019.

Billy published a critically acclaimed book in 2017 and became a best-selling author. Roots, Radicals, Rockers – How Skiffle Changed the World. In addition to his successful 2017 release, Bragg has also published two books on political analysis. Progressive Patriots: Exploring a Sense of Belonging 2006, 2019 three dimensions of freedom.

Over his four decades, the British singer has worked with the likes of Eliza Carthy, Norman Cooke, Dick Gauguin, Joe Henry, Kirsty McCall, Ian McLagan, Johnny Marr, REM, and the US alternative rock band Wilco, of whom he created two. have cooperated. Acclaimed collection.

Billy will also perform at the National Concert Hall on November 21st. Get tickets from €38 here.