2 4 6 8 Motorway - Tom Robinson 7" 45

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Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. Robinson came up with the tune 'trying to work out the chords to Climax Blues Band's " Couldn't Get It Right"' which he could not really remember. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

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He lives in East London indulging his passions of writing, reading, cinema, music, football, cricket, and vegetable gardening.

The verse lyric came from having done cheap gigs around the country with my previous band Cafe Society, and driving back through the night from places like Scarborough and Rotherham. The song has subsequently appeared on numerous compilation albums, including Rising Free (1980), The Collection (1987), Last Tango, Midnight at the Fringe (1988), Winter of '89 (1992), Home from Home (1999) [8] and Tom Robinson Band The Anthology 1977–1979. 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.Robert Christgau described it as an "instant hit" [5] whilst David Quantick described the song as "somewhere between a terrace chant (or a demo marching song) and a Brucie Springsteen number".

This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. Tim Cooper has written for most national newspapers and many magazines on every subject from politics to pop culture. Robinson wrote the song between leaving Café Society in 1976 and forming the Tom Robinson Band the following year, at a time when he was performing with whichever friends were available on the night; thus, the song had to be simple enough to learn in a few minutes. 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.

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. 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. singing solutions to entertainment venues, bars, pubs and anywhere else people want to sing together! Not to be confused with Davies’s song Lola, which proved that boys would sometimes be girls (and vice versa).