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
Richard Stubbs (academic) Richard Stubbs (academic) Richard Wallace Stubbs (born 1946) is a British-Canadian professor emeritus and writer on international politics. Stubbs taught at St. Francis Xavier University, Carleton University and the University of Toronto before joining the Department of Political Science at McMaster University in 1990. Stubbs is known for his book on the Malayan Emergency, "Hearts and Minds in Guerrilla Warfare: The Malayan Emergency 1946-1960" (Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1989), which was republished in 2004 by Eastern University Press. The three editions of his coedited book with Geoffrey R. D. Underhill, "Political Economy and the Changing Global Order" (MacMillan, 1994; Oxford