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THE co-founder of Big Issue magazine is set to release a single to raise funds in a bid to help tackle poverty and homelessness.
Musician Phil Ryan, who worked with the magazine’s founder Lord John Bird 26 years ago, wrote Walking Down This Lonely Street about the isolation people face when homeless.
He was asked by Lord Bird to write a song to raise awareness of the magazine’s vendors.
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TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger