Billy Bragg – Levi Stubbs‘ Tears
Die erste Single von Billy Braggs Album „Talking with the Taxman about Poetry“, das 1986 auf Go! Discs veröffentlicht wurde.
Seine Hommage an Levi Stubbs, den Leadsänger der Four Tops.
„When the world falls apart some things stay in place
Levi Stubbs‘ tears run down his face
Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong
Are here to make right everything that’s wrong
Holland and Holland and Lamont Dozier too
Are here to make it all okay with you“
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"Bird is not dead; he's hiding out somewhere, and will be back with some new shit that'll scare everybody to death." (Charles Mingus)