Levi Stubbs' Tears 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 and featured in his 1989 song "Won't Talk About It", also featuring Billy Bragg on "falsetto soul" vocals. When Cook formed Beats International they released their own hit version of the
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