Songs

(I Want to) Kill Somebody (1)
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais (1)
7 and 7 Is (3)
A Change Is Gonna Come (28)
A Lover Sings (196)
A Miner's Life (2)
A New England (562)
A Pict Song (38)
A Rainy Night in Soho (2)
A Song About Law and Order (1)
A Voice in the Wilderness (5)
A13, Trunk Road to the Sea (97)
Accident Waiting to Happen (196)
Acid (Purple) Rain (5)
Aginst th' Law (25)
Ain't Too Proud to Beg (1)
Ain't Too Proud To Beg / Gloria / Louie Louie / My Girl Sloopy / Wild Thing / Louie Louie (1)
Airline to Heaven (1)
All the Young Dudes (4)
All You Fascists Bound to Lose (210)
All You Need Is Love (1)
Ameri'ka (1)
Another Girl, Another Planet (2)
Another Kind of Judy (2)
Another Man Done Gone (22)
Another Man's Done Gone (1)
Around and Around (1)
As Long as You Hold Me (3)
Ask (10)
Auld Lang Syne (1)
Baby Faroukh (3)
Back in the U.S.S.R. (2)
Back to the Old House (1)
Barking Park Lake (1)
Bestiality (5)
Between the Wars (211)
Big Yellow Taxi (1)
Billericay Dickie (1)
Billy and the Heckler (1)
Birds And Ships (1)
Black Sheep Boy (1)
Black Wind Blowing (18)
Blowin' in the Wind (1)
Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) (2)
Body of Water (14)
Both Sides the Tweed (1)
Bourgeois Blues / Bush War Blues (1)
Boy About Town (1)
Bread and Circuses (1)
Brickbat (82)
Bring It On Home to Me (1)
Brown's Ferry Blues (1)
Bugeye Jim (1)
Bush War Blues (5)
California Stars (53)
Can't Help Falling in Love (3)
Career Opportunities (4)
Chasing Rainbows (28)
Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto (15)
Christ for President (8)
Cindy of a Thousand Lives (46)
Cold & Bitter Tears (1)
Constitution Hill (1)
Cosmonaut (1)
Dallas (2)
Darling Let's Have Another Baby (1)
Daydream Believer (1)
Days Like These (52)
Dead Flowers (17)
Debris (10)
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) (5)
Deutschlandlied (1)
Distant Shore (20)
Disturbance at the Heron House (2)
Do Anything You Wanna Do (1)
Do Re Mi (4)
Do Unto Others (41)
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (9)
Don't You Marry (10)
Down in the Willow Garden (1)
Dreadbelly (2)
Dry Bed (21)
Early Morning Rain (1)
Eggshells & Anxious (1)
Eisler on the Go (9)
England, Half English (26)
Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) (16)
Everybody Loves You Babe (8)
Everything Counts (1)
Everywhere (40)
Fall on Me (1)
Farm Boy (26)
Fear Is a Man's Best Friend (34)
Folsom Prison Blues (1)
Free World (1)
Freedom Doesn't Come for Free (58)
Frog Went A-Courting (1)
From a Vauxhall Velox (28)
From Red to Blue (37)
Full English Brexit (15)
Garageland (28)
Get It On / Must I Paint You a Picture ? / People Get Ready / Tupelo Honey (1)
Girl From the North Country (3)
Give Him a Great Big Kiss (2)
Give Me a Nail (2)
Glad and Sorry (2)
Gloria (3)
Go Down to the Water (10)
Goalhanger (35)
God's Footballer (4)
Goodbye, Goodbye (44)
Green Onions (3)
Greetings to the New Brunette (411)
Groove Is in the Heart (7)
Groovy Times (1)
Groupie (Superstar) (8)
Guns of Navarone (1)
Halleluja (1)
Handyman Blues (136)
Hangknot, Slipknot (20)
Hard Times in Old England (1)
Hard Travelin' (2)
He'll Have to Go (2)
Heart Like a Wheel (1)
Hello in There (4)
Help Save the Youth of America (120)
Here Come The Now (1)
Hobo's Lullaby (1)
Honey I'm a Big Boy Now / I Fall to Pieces / Your Cheatin' Heart (1)
Honey I'm a Big Boy Now / Your Cheatin' Heart (6)
Honey, I'm a Big Boy Now (48)
Hoodoo Voodoo (2)
How Come (1)
I Ain't Got No Home (116)
I Almost Killed You (5)
I Can't Win (2)
I Don't Need This Pressure, Ron (37)
I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night (8)
I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night / Joe Hill (1)
I Eat Dogfood (1)
I Fall to Pieces / Your Cheatin' Heart (1)
I Guess I Planted (31)
I Heard It Through the Grapevine (24)
I Keep Faith (127)
I Saw a Big One Last Night (1)
I Still Miss Someone (2)
I Walk the Line (1)
I Was Born (7)
I Will Be Your Shield (108)
I Will Survive (1)
I Wish It Would Rain (1)
I'll Be There (9)
I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better (1)
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (1)
Ideology (104)
If I Should Fall From Grace With God (2)
If You Ever Leave (3)
Ingrid Bergman (82)
Island of No Return (66)
Islands in the Sun (2)
It Says Here (91)
Jabberwocky (3)
Jabberwocky / Pinball Wizard (1)
Jane Allen (2)
Jarama Valley (4)
Jeane (45)
Jeane / That's Entertainment (9)
Jeane / That's Entertainment (2)
Jerusalem (10)
Joe DiMaggio Done It Again (2)
John Barleycorn (6)
John Barleycorn / England, Half English (9)
Johnny Too Bad (2)
Jolene (1)
Just a Second (1)
Just Because (1)
Just One Victory (5)
King James Version (29)
King Richard (2)
King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood (126)
Kitten (1)
L'Internationale (1)
Labour in Dorset (1)
Last Flight to Abu Dhabi (12)
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream (1)
Let's Get It On (3)
Levi Stubbs' Tears (469)
Life With the Lions (27)
Like Soldiers Do (99)
Little Girls Know (2)
Little Time Bomb (45)
Live In Central Park (Scratch) (1)
Lonely This Christmas (1)
Lonesome Ocean (1)
Louie Louie (1)
Louie Louie / My Girl Sloopy / Wild Thing (1)
Louie Louie / My Girl Sloopy / Wild Thing / Gloria (1)
Louie Louie / Wild Thing / My Girl Sloopy (1)
Love Gets Dangerous (47)
Love Has No Pride (1)
Love is Not a Game (1)
Lovers Town (2)
Lovers Town / Safe European Home (1)
Lovers Town Revisited (100)
M for Me (1)
Many Rivers to Cross (1)
Masturbation Is a Lonely Sound When Heard By Someone You Love (1)
MBH (1)
Mid-Century Modern (92)
Midnight Special (2)
Mother of the Bride (3)
Moving the Goalposts (12)
Mr Love & Justice (8)
Must I Paint You a Picture? (141)
My Flying Saucer (47)
My Girl (1)
My Girl / Ain't Too Proud to Beg (1)
My Girl / Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) (2)
My Girl / Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) / Ain't Too Proud to Beg (8)
My Youngest Son Came Home Today (8)
Mystery Shoes (4)
Never Buy the Sun (59)
Never Cross a Picket Line (3)
New Home Town (2)
Nicaragua Nicaraguita (19)
No Man's Land (1)
No One Knows Nothing Anymore (71)
North Sea Bubble (34)
Northern Industrial Town (17)
Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted (8)
NPWA (76)
O Freedom (17)
Oh My God (1)
Oklahoma Hills (1)
Old Clash Fan Fight Song (26)
Oliver's Army (3)
On Both Sides the Tweed (1)
One Love (12)
One Love (Let's Drop The Debt) (1)
Only the Young (1)
Ontario, Quebec and Me (11)
Our Love Has Gone Again (1)
Our Love Is Dangerous (2)
Over You (16)
Panic (6)
Pass It On (5)
Pass It On / King Tide Is A-Comin' (1)
People Are on the Move (1)
People Get Ready (9)
People Get Ready / Tupelo Honey (2)
People Get Ready / Tupelo Honey / Girl From the North Country (2)
People Get Ready / Tupelo Honey / Girl From the North Country / Let's Get It On (4)
Photo Booth (1)
Photosynthesis (1)
Pinball Wizard (9)
Pinball Wizard / Folsom Prison Blues (6)
Police and Thieves (1)
Pressure Drop (1)
Pretty Boy Floyd (7)
Promised Land (1)
Proud Mary (1)
Psalm (10)
Puppy Love (CV) (1)
Rachel Rose Reid (1)
Racing in the Street (1)
Raglan Road (5)
Rally 'Round the Flag (1)
Ramblin' Round (1)
Reach Out I'll Be There (2)
Reason to Believe (1)
Redemption Song (1)
Reel Around the Fountain (1)
Revolution (2)
Rich Men Earning North of a Million (50)
Richard (139)
Rimbaud Come On Home (1)
Rock & Roll Star (3)
Rock Island Line (3)
Romford Girls (2)
Rotting on Remand (4)
Route 66 (2)
Rudy a Message to You (8)
Rule Nor Reason (14)
Rumours of War (7)
Saffiyah Smiles (25)
Save the Country (8)
Scholarship Is the Enemy of Romance (7)
Sexuality (434)
Sexuality / Beastiality (1)
She Came Along to Me (74)
She Does It Right (1)
She Smiled Sweetly (1)
She's Got a New Spell (159)
Ship in My Harbour (1)
Should Have Seen It Coming (12)
Sin City (4)
Sing Their Souls Back Home (11)
Siren Song (1)
Smoke on the Water (2)
Solidarity Forever (5)
Solidarity Forever (1)
Solitary Confinement (1)
Some Days I See the Point (5)
Song About a Bear That Ain't Got No Name (2)
Song of the Iceberg (1)
Sorrow (1)
Sorrow / The Warmest Room (5)
Speedway Hero (1)
Springsteen Tickets (1)
St Monday / Itchycoo Park (2)
St. Crispin's Day (1)
St. Monday (29)
St. Swithin's Day (116)
Stand Down Margaret (12)
Stand Up Now (1)
Star (4)
Stetson Kennedy (1)
Strange Things Happen (25)
Streets of London (1)
Sugardaddy (23)
Sulk (14)
Summertime (1)
Swallow My Pride (13)
Sweet as Pie (1)
Symphony no. 9 in D minor, op. 125 - IV. Finale ("Ode to Joy") (5)
T for Texas / Simon & Garfunkel Live in Central Park (1)
Take Down the Union Jack (18)
Take the M From Me (1)
Tank Park Salute (240)
Tears of My Tracks (8)
Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained (41)
Tender Comrade (32)
Tennessee Waltz (1)
That's All It Took (1)
That's Entertainment (7)
Thatcherites (21)
The Battle of Barking (10)
The Bear Went Over the Mountain (4)
The Bourgeois Blues (3)
The Boy Done Good (41)
The Buck Doesn't Stop Here No More (39)
The Busy Girl Buys Beauty (100)
The Croppy Boy (2)
The Dark End of the Street (4)
The Dolphins (35)
The Drugs Don't Work (2)
The Few (19)
The Fourteenth of February (14)
The Home Front (24)
The Internationale (26)
The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore (3)
The Last Time (1)
The Lonesome Death of Rachel Corrie (3)
The Man He Killed (29)
The Man in the Iron Mask (204)
The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions (25)
The Marriage (46)
The Milkman of Human Kindness (455)
The Million Things That Never Happened (46)
The Myth of Trust (83)
The Only One (44)
The Passion (14)
The Price I Pay (92)
The Price of Oil (5)
The Red Flag (15)
The Saturday Boy (223)
The Short Answer (50)
The Sleep of Reason (28)
The Space Race Is Over (77)
The Story of Rachel Corrie (2)
The Tatler (1)
The Tiger Who Came To Tea (1)
The Times They Are A-Changin' (83)
The Tracks of My Tears (10)
The Unwelcome Guest (17)
The Village Bells (2)
The Wallpaper Rap (1)
The Warmest Room (100)
The Wolf Covers Its Tracks (53)
The World Turned Upside Down (315)
The World's Longest Picket Line (2)
There Is Power in a Union (497)
There Will Be a Reckoning (57)
Think Again (22)
This Guitar Says Sorry (37)
This Gulf Between Us (7)
This Land Is Your Land (5)
To Have and to Have Not (341)
Tomorrow's Going to Be a Better Day (28)
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (1)
Town Called Malice (1)
Train Train (31)
Trust (18)
Tupelo Honey (3)
Ukulele Anthem (1)
Underneath the Arches (1)
Union Maid (2)
Union Song (1)
Unisex Chipshop (1)
Upfield (129)
Valentine's Day Is Over (115)
Victoria (1)
Waiting for a New Deal Now (3)
Waiting for a Train (2)
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards (446)
Walk Away Renée (50)
Walk Away Renée (Version) (3)
Walt Whitman's Niece (6)
Waterloo Sunset (1)
Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key (266)
We're Following the Wrong Star (3)
What Did the Deep Sea Say (1)
What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me) (2)
When the Roses Bloom Again (1)
When Will I See You Again (4)
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (1)
Which Side Are You On? (101)
Why We Build the Wall (85)
Wild Horses (1)
Willin' (2)
Wish You Were Her (2)
Wishing the Days Away (18)
Worker's Playtime (1)
Woyaya (4)
Wrong Emboyo (1)
Yarra Song (17)
You Don't Miss Your Water (5)
You Win Again (1)
You Woke Up My Neighbourhood (57)
You've Got the Power (2)
Your Cheatin' Heart (3)

Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards performed by Billy Bragg

From the release Workers Playtime (Album)
Total Plays 446 times by Billy Bragg
482 times by 6 artists
First Played in Concert October 25, 1986 at Odeon, Münster, Germany
Most Recently Played July 27, 2025 at Forest Fest 2025

Years

	Year	Song Performances
1	2013	42


2	2023	40


3	2024	30


4	2019	29


5	2022	26


6	2012	20


7	2017	19


8	2021	18


9	1988	17


	1997	17


	2008	17


12	1996	14


13	1991	13


	1992	13


15	1990	12


	2006	12


	2014	12


18	1989	11


19	2002	10


20	1998	8


	2003	8


22	2004	7


	2018	7


24	2025	6


25	1987	5


	1995	5


	2015	5


28	1993	4


	2005	4


30	2001	3


31	1999	2


	2000	2


	2011	2


	2016	2


35	1986	1


	2007	1


	2009	1


	2020	1

Songs

Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards performed by Billy Bragg

Years

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