A New England — Kirsty MacColl

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While I know “A New England is a Billy Bragg song really, for most of us Kirsty MacColl’s cover is the better-known version.

Her cover version was a 1985 Top 10 single in the UK and, in many ways, launched both her career and his.

Billy Bragg was relatively well known in the folk and punk scene by the early 1980s, with his own brand of radical politics going down well in the early…