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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)

Above pic, roughly L-R:
Hank Wangford
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Ken Livingstone
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Jill Bryson
Ian Craig-Marsh (Heaven 17)
Neil Kinnock
Martyn Ware (Heaven 17)
Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17)
Paul Weller
Beverley Randall (Black Theatre Co.)
Robbie Coltrane
Billy Bragg
Front: Kazuko & Kazume (Frank Chickens)

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)

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

theguardian.com/music/2015/apr

The Guardian · Red Wedge: bringing Labour party politics to young music fansBy Guardian staff reporter