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A Concert For Heroes: Paul Weller, Tom Robinson, Ewan McColl at the Royal Albert Hall

Len Brown, New Musical Express, 15 March 1986

A WORKING-CLASS hero is something to be; it gets more difficult by the day. Under a Government that puts Profit and Progress before People (don't they all?), and which increasingly restricts traditional forms of industrial protest, '80s revolts like Greenham Common and the Miners' strike ('84/'85) can only be described as 'heroic struggles'.

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