Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship. Tim Cooper has written for most national newspapers and many magazines on every subject from politics to pop culture. There was no Tom Robinson Band at the time - just the name and a series of pub gigs I’d blagged for the coming weeks. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

I think all of this goes on and persists because actual equality means a lot of folks who have outrageous stuff will have to give some of it up.The song was performed by the Tom Robinson Band, which included Tom Robinson as lead vocalist and bass player, Danny Kustow as the guitarist, Mark Ambler on keyboards, and Dolphin Taylor as drummer.

Comment: Tom Robinson Band - 2 4 6 8 Motorway - 7 Inch - UK Pressing - Emi - 1977 - EMI2715 - Four Prong Label Design B/W I Shall Be Released In Plain Sleeve - In Plain/Company Sleeve, Condition (Disc): /EX. It was only after six months of playing everywhere from prisons to pubs to public schools that the band became ‘gig-fit’, ie tough enough and tight enough to put the song over with real conviction, so it would connect with listeners on first hearing. He lives in East London indulging his passions of writing, reading, cinema, music, football, cricket, and vegetable gardening. Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover.Tom Robinson talked to M about the secrets of 2-4-6-8 Motorway - the debut single by Tom Robinson Band (TRB) in 1977. There’s nothing very punky about their first single either, but its stomping beat and shout-along chorus made it a hit. All of which goes to show that boys will be boys – as Robinson would remind us with his next hit, Glad To Be Gay.

Not to be confused with Davies’s song Lola, which proved that boys would sometimes be girls (and vice versa). Joined by singer and double-bassist Miranda Sykes in 2004, and percussionist Cormac Byrne in 2019, Show of Hands continue to perform as a duo as well as in the four-piece band format. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. Records that aren't in picture sleeves will either be in a company sleeve or a generic plain sleeve.

But front man Tom’s fiery left-wing politics, his status as a gay man who proclaimed his sexuality in song, and his campaigning work to help found Rock Against Racism made him a welcome fellow addition to the circuit. Led Zeppelin never won a Grammy Award; Jimmy Page and Robert Plant earned their first trophies in 2000 for "Most High," a song they wrote together that explores the role of religion in society.

The B-side is a cover of Bob Dylan's " I Shall Be Released" which Robinson performed many times, including as part of the supergroup "The Secret Police" at The Secret Policeman's Ball in 1979. After Sam Ryder’s Space Man turned the page on two decades of Eurovision misery for the UK in 2022, this year’s representative Mae Muller is bidding to go one better this time around with her electropop gem I Wrote A Song. Lots of people in the punk community hated poor Tom because He was for gay rights, with songs like "Glad To Be Gay". I’ve looked hard and I suppose you could interpret its lyric as being metaphorical that way (“Well there ain’t no route you could choose to lose the two of us / Ain’t nobody know when you’re acting right or wrong / No one knows if a roadway’s leading nowhere / Gonna keep on driving home on the road I’m on”) but I’ve got to say that’s never occurred to me at any point since its release in 1977.Although it seems like a straightforward song about the freedom of the open road in a long tradition of rock’n’roll songs, it has since been claimed that 2-4-6-8 Motorway has a gay subtext. It was released as a single in 1977 by British punk rock/ new wave group the Tom Robinson Band, and reached No. Ed Sheeran dedicates his album outro to a lover who has blessed him with a unique experience that he seeks to describe through the song’s nuanced lyrics.