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Is Billy Bragg Pissing In The Wind Or What?

Len Brown, NME, 4 November 1989

Highway Through Hellas: a Greek tragicomedy in sex acts and three comic benefits. Starring Billy Bragg as Flash Gordon (protest singer, planet saviour and aspiring Dicko Branson), WIGGY as Baldrick (Flash roadie), GRANT SHOWBIZ as Billy Corkhill (Flash soundman and former Fall/ Smiths producer), PETER JENNER as Captain Mainwaring (Flash manager), and LEN BROWN (old hack obsessed with the ouzo layer).

Total word count of piece: 1849

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