2 4 6 8 Motorway - Tom Robinson 7" 45

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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. The verse came from Robinson's memories of driving back to London through the night after gigs with Café Society: "By the time our van hit the last stretch of M1 into London the motorway sun really was coming up with the morning light. It was released as a single in 1977 by British punk rock/ new wave group the Tom Robinson Band, and reached No. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

The two are back together after a long period apart, and get around to enjoying a bunch of fun activities while rekindling the flames of their romance.in Sweden on 27 January 1978, and staying at the top for 4 weeks, while in the US (Harvest 4533) has "2-4-6-8" on both sides. 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. 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. 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.

Sláðu einfaldlega inn hljómana sem þú kannt hér að neðan, aðskilda með kommu, og við sýnum þér hvaða lög þú getur spilað!The song was the first single released by the Tom Robinson Band, who had formed in January 1977 and was signed to EMI in August 1977. singing solutions to entertainment venues, bars, pubs and anywhere else people want to sing together! VG/EX means that the item's sleeve is in Very Good condition and the disc is in Excellent condition. 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.

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. 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. By the time our van hit the last stretch of M1 into London the motorway sun really was coming up with the morning light. The frontman for one of Canada's most well-known punk rock bands talks about his Eddie Vedder encounter, Billy Talent's new album, and the importance of rock and roll.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.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.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. 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. Records that aren't in picture sleeves will either be in a company sleeve or a generic plain sleeve.