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Billy Bragg: Liverpool was right about News International all along

My song, Never Buy the Sun, pays tribute to the scousers who started their own boycott after the Hillsborough stadium disasterFor the past 22 years, people in Liverpool have boycotted the Sun newspaper because of the lies that it printed about the behaviour of Liverpool FC fans at the Hillsborough disaster. Ninety-six people were crushed to death at a football match at Hillsborough in Sheffield on 15 April 1989. The Sun ran a front page story that accused Liverpool supporters of variously robbin...

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11:06 on July 13 2011

Billy Bragg: Never Buy the Sun - audio

Guardian Music — Billy Bragg performs Never Buy the Sun, his song written in the wake of the News of the World hacking scandal. It refers to the Sun's sales in Liverpool, which never reco... more info

Billy Bragg

11:14 on July 13 2011

Billy Bragg: Liverpool was right about News International all along

Guardian Music — My song, Never Buy the Sun, pays tribute to the scousers who started their own boycott after the Hillsborough stadium disasterFor the past 22 years, people in Liverpool h... more info

Billy Bragg