Thomas Giles Robinson (born June 1, 1950) is an English vocalist lyricist, bassist, radio personality, and long-term LGBT freedoms lobbyist most popular for his Tom Robinson Band’s singles “Happy to Be Gay,” “2-4-6-8 Motorway,” and “Don’t Take No for a Response.” With his performance single “War Child,” he came to No. 6 on the UK Singles Graph.
Early Years On June 1, 1950, tom robinson was born into a working class Cambridge family. Between 1961 through 1967, he went to Companions’ Foundation, Saffron Walden, a co-ed, secretly subsidized Quaker school. At school, he was an individual from The Investigation, a guitar threesome. Robinson has a sister, Sophy, and two brothers, Matthew (a previous BBC chief maker) and George.
Robinson found he was gay at 13 years old when he went gaga for one more youngster at school. Male gay way of behaving was a wrongdoing in Britain until 1967, and it was deserving of detainment. At 16 years old, he had a mental meltdown and endeavored self destruction.
He was moved to Finchden Estate, a remedial local area in Kent for youngsters with profound issues, by a head educator, where he spent the following six years. Robinson was propelled at the local area by John Strip’s The Perfumed Nursery on privateer Radio London, as well as a visit from Alexis Korner.
Utilizing just his voice and an acoustic guitar, the popular bluesman and telecaster hypnotized an audience. Robinson’s whole life and vocation way became gem plain to him out of nowhere.
In spite of distinguishing as gay, Robinson has had past associations with ladies and cases to have consistently said that he appreciated all kinds of people.
He presently views himself as sexually open, however in the past he utilized the term ‘gay,’ which is tradable with ‘strange,’ to allude to the more extensive LGBT populace. He thought about the expression “sexually unbiased” to be a cop-out. Robinson met Sue Brearley, the lady with whom he would ultimately live and have two youngsters, and consequently wed, at a 1982 advantage party for London’s Gay Switchboard help-line.
At the point when Robinson became a dad during the 1990s, the sensationalist newspapers broadcasted articles about what they saw to be a sexual direction shift, with titles like “England’s Main Gay in Adoration with Young lady Biker!” (The Sunday Public).
Robinson kept up with his gay personality, telling The Watchman’s questioner, “I have undeniably more compassion for bisexuals now, yet I’m unquestionably not one.” “Our foes don’t recognize gay and sexually open,” he added.
Robinson expressed in a 1994 meeting with The Boston Globe paper: “For the beyond 20 years, we’ve been fighting for resilience, and I’ve upheld for people to have the option to cherish whomever they need.
We are examining: resistance, freedom, and opportunity — life, freedom, and the quest for joy that. In this way, assuming somebody won’t concede me a similar resilience I’ve been battling for them, all things considered, that is their concern, not mine.”
In 1973, Robinson headed out to London and joined the acoustic gathering Bistro Society. Beam Davies of The Crimps was so taken with them that he marked them to his Konk name and delivered their presentation collection. As indicated by Robinson, Davies’ different responsibilities dialed back the recording system, and he left the band after just 600 duplicates of the collection were sold.
At London’s Nashville Rooms, the Tom Robinson Band was performing when Davies entered and savagely sang The Wrinkles’ melody “Burnt out on Sitting tight for You.” The terrible Crimps tune “Ruler of the Troublemakers” was Davies’ reaction to Robinson.
In 1982, Robinson wrote the melody “War Child” on the divisions among East and West Germany for his presentation solo collection North by Northwest, which he co-created with maker Richard Mazda.
His vocation was restarted when “War Child” came to No. 6 on the UK Singles Outline and endured three weeks at the highest point of the UK Indie Graph.
His subsequent single, “Pay attention to the Radio: Atmospherics,” which he co-composed with Peter Gabriel, appeared at No. 39 on the UK Singles Outline and was kept by Pukka Symphony in 1984, bringing him more cash. The Pukkas’ rendition, “Pay attention to the Radio,” arrived at the main 20 in Canada.
He delivered “Just The At this point” in October 2015, his first new collection in quite a while. Billy Bragg, Ian McKellen, and Lee Forsyth Griffiths were among the cast individuals.
It was co-composed by Gerry Jumper, a multi-instrumentalist and grant winning maker, and delivered on his own Castaway Northwest Accounts.
Tom advanced the collection by showing up at various celebrations throughout the mid year, including Glastonbury, Scope, Wickham, and Green Man. In September, he featured a gig at the Sovereign Elizabeth Lobby in London, which was trailed by a 15-city visit in October and November.
Robinson got a BASCA Gold Identification that very month. It was offered to him out of appreciation for his extraordinary commitment to English music.
In late 2018 and mid 2019, Robinson filled in for Radio 2 DJ Johnnie Walker on his Sunday show Hints of the Seventies.
Robinson will set out on a 22-date UK “70th Birthday celebration Visit” with a five-piece band in 2020 following a four-night solo acoustic visit.