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Billy Bragg aims for Jubilee Number One Billy Bragg is aiming to be number one for the Queen's Golden Jubilee. He will be urging fans to buy his single Take Down The Union Jack as a protest against the celebrations. Billy will release the track two weeks before the jubilee weekend. "I'm going to do my best to have the jubilee number one," he told Ananova. "We need an army of people who are appalled by the whole jubilee and nostalgia thing." Take Down The Union Jack includes the lyrics: "Britain isn't cool you know, it's really not that great, it's not a proper country, it doesn't even have a patron saint, it's just an economic union that's passed its sell-by date." Billy said the single would not get much promotion or radio airplay. He is starting a campaign through his website and by word of mouth to urge people to buy Take Down The Union Jack when it is released at the end of May. Billy said he also hopes to spoil the Sex Pistols' plans to be number one with God Save The Queen. He dismissed the re-release as an act of nostalgia rather than subversion. Date: 20th March 2002 |
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