Punk rocker, soldier, Essex boy, folk singer, Skiffle aficionado, protest singers’ protest singer, patriot, optimist, lefty polemicist, author, soul miner, musicologist, champion of the underclasses, Cockney vocalist and all round decent bloke, Billy Bragg, has announced he will release a career spanning box set, The Roaring Forty | 1983-2023, on the 27th October via Cooking Vinyl. The Roaring Forty | 1983-2023 celebrates the remarkable and enduring musical legacy of a much-loved songwriter, principled activist and alternative national treasure. “Doesn’t seem like just that long ago that I was playing Thursday nights at the Tunnel in Greenwich, opening for whoever was headlining that night. I learned my chops there in late 82/early83 and I’m still putting those less...