Levi Stubbs' Tears song in 1990. In 2014, "NME" ranked it at number 207 in their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. All tracks composed by Billy Bragg; except where indicated Levi Stubbs' Tears "Levi Stubbs' Tears" is a song by Billy Bragg. It was the first single released from Bragg's 1986 album "Talking with the Taxman about Poetry". The song's title refers to The Four Tops lead singer Levi Stubbs, whose music remains a source of comfort to the protagonist through years of abandonment, injury, and domestic violence. A guitar riff from the song was sampled by Norman Cook
Walter R. Stubbs Republican United States Senator. In 1912, Democrat William H. Thompson, defeated Stubbs in his bid for the office. Upon leaving the governor's office, Stubbs returned to his mansion on Windmill Hill in Lawrence, Kansas, situated just west of the University of Kansas campus. The building, which had been constructed in 1907, was sold by Stubbs in 1922 to KU's Sigma Nu chapter, and to this day, it is still used as their fraternity house. After suffering with heart trouble for some time, Stubbs died on March 25, 1929 in Topeka, Kansas at the age of 70. He is interred at