2 4 6 8 Motorway - Tom Robinson 7" 45

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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. The chorus hook was a straight lift from my favourite chant at Gay Lib demos - ‘2,4,6,8, Gay is twice as good as straight. 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.

It was the way everyone played it on the record, and especially Danny Kustow’s guitar work, that finally persuaded EMI they had a future hit on their hands. 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 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.It was released as a single in 1977 by British punk rock/ new wave group the Tom Robinson Band, and reached No. 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. By the time our van hit the last stretch of M1 into London the motorway sun really was coming up with the morning light. Lots of people in the punk community hated poor Tom because He was for gay rights, with songs like "Glad To Be Gay".

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. 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". Sláðu einfaldlega inn hljómana sem þú kannt hér að neðan, aðskilda með kommu, og við sýnum þér hvaða lög þú getur spilað! 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.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. VG/EX means that the item's sleeve is in Very Good condition and the disc is in Excellent condition. 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. 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.