Richard Hawley doesn't wave 'the people's flag' but works at an
emotional level.   WHEN Richard Hawley was 12, he stood on
picket lines with his father and uncles, steelworkers from
Sheffield, in England's north, whose way of life was taken away
from them at the end of the 1970s as Margaret Thatcher sought to
remake Britain. They were not peaceful protests, and the singer-
songwriter remembers police officers in riot gear charging the
demonstrators ''a lot''.  Now 45, Hawley has lived long enough
to witness what he believes are cycles coming full turn. The
Britain he remembers as a boy, where his parents separated
because they couldn't afford to stay together, is like a whisper
that grows louder in his head as the country changes again under
the policies of the present Conservative Party Prime Minister,
David Cameron.  Hawley's response is his seventh studio album,
2012's Standing at the Sky's Edge, which rumbles with a
psychedelic militancy and an apocalyptic undertow as his
crooner's baritone ranges across t