Portrail of the artist: Billy Bragg, musician

'I took John Peel a mushroom biryani when he was on air – in return, he gave me my first radio airplay'What got you started?A desire not to go and work in the Ford car factory in Dagenham. That's what everyone where I lived was being educated to do. To get out of it, it seemed I needed to be a boxer, a footballer or a rock star. I didn't want to get punched in the head, and I'm not that good at football, so I went for music.What was your big breakthrough?Buying a mushroom biryani for John Pee...

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