Readers recommend songs about manual labour: The results

Not many from the last 20 years, when pop poppets wouldn't know the meaning of the phrase, but we pick earthy songs from earthier timesFrom stage school to stardom via a year in a van – some of today's pop poppets have as much experience of life outside showbiz as the Miliband brothers have of a weekend's raving. This, as may have been observed by others, is not a pretty situation. Bands will soon have nothing more to sing about than their relationship with their stylist.There are not, therefo...

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