On this day 39 years ago, Labour leader Neil Kinnock had his arm round Strawberry Switchblade's Jill Bryson at the launch of Red Wedge, a campaign to discourage youth apathy in parliamentary politics.
21 November 1985, House of Commons, London.
(📸 Richard Young)
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Left-right: Jill Bryson, Ian Craig-Marsh, Paul Weller, Martyn Ware, Ken Livingstone MP, Glenn Gregory, Neil Kinnock MP, Robbie Coltrane, Billy Bragg's nose.
(📸Richard Young)
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Here's an oral history of Red Wedge from Q Magazine in 1996 (reproduced in the Guardian) with contributions from Tom Robinson, Billy Bragg, Lloyd Cole, Rhoda Dakar & more - inc tales of Rev Richard Coles amazing everybody with card tricks
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In the runup to the election, Rock’s Backpages turns to the March 1996 edition of Q magazine to resurrect an oral history of Red Wedge, the political initiative set up by the likes of Billy Bragg, Paul Weller and Tom Robinson 30 years ago
And finally, a film about Red Wedge made at the time
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