Billy Bragg: 30 years as a campaigning singer-songwriter

Tooth & Nail, Billy Bragg's 2013 album Photograph: Essential Music /AP

Billy Bragg on Channel 4's The Tube in 1983 Photograph: ITV/Rex Features

Billy Bragg performing in a US street in 1984 Photograph: Express/Getty Images

Billy Bragg watched by Labour leader Neil Kinnock at the 1985 launch of Red Wedge, an initiative to get young people interested in politics Photograph: Richard Young/Rex Features

Paul Weller with Labour Leader Neil Kinnock and Ken Livingstone at the launch of Red Wedge Photograph: Richard Young/Rex Features

Billy Bragg is interviewed on The Tube by Jools Holland in 1986 Photograph: ITV/Rex Features

Billy Bragg joins cleaners from the houses of parliament protesting against poor pay and conditions in 2005 Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian

Billy Bragg before speaking at the Edinburgh international book festival in 2007 Photograph: Murdo Macleod

Billy Bragg poses with the Q classic songwriter award in 2007 Photograph: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images

Billy Bragg delivers guitars to Wormwood Scubs prison in 2007 Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian

Billy Bragg with the Mentalists at a benefit concert for the Jail Guitar Doors charity programme Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian

Billy Bragg poses in the Gibson guitar studio during a performance to support his Jail Guitar Doors campaign in 2008 Photograph: Zak Hussein/PA Archive

Billy Bragg performs outside the Bank of England during the G20 protest in the City of London in 2009 Photograph: Antonio Olmos

The 2010 concert to mark the 10th anniversary of singer Kirsty MacColl's death in aid of the Music Fund for Cuba at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, London Photograph: Rex Features

Actor/comedian Eddie Izzard and musician Billy Bragg attend an anti-BNP Hope Not Hate event in Barking, east London during the 2010 general election campaign Photograph: Frantzesco Kangaris

Billy Bragg performs an impromptu gig in 2011 on a makeshift stage at the Occupy Bristol camp on College Green in front of the Bristol city council offices Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA Archive