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Tom Robinson was born into a middle-class family in Cambridge on 1 June 1950. [2] He attended Friends' School, Saffron Walden, a co-ed privately funded Quaker school, between 1961 and 1967. He played guitar in a trio at school called The Inquisition. Robinson has two brothers, Matthew (a former BBC executive producer) and George, and a sister ...
Robinson married the former Gertrude Dietsch of Evanston on November 26, 1910, and the couple lived in Evanston through 1941, when they moved to Barrington, Illinois. They had one daughter and one son. [1] [2] [9] Robinson won his first Big Ten conference championship in 1914 and continued to win consecutive conference championships through 1918.
The 6 November 1977, episode of Granada Television's So It Goes featured a live performance of the song by the Tom Robinson Band. In 1979, Tom Robinson performed at the Secret Policeman's Ball, a benefit concert staged by the British section of Amnesty International to raise funds for its research and campaign work in the human rights arena ...
Tom Robinson Band (TRB) are a British rock band, established in 1976 by singer, songwriter and bassist Tom Robinson.The band's debut single "2-4-6-8 Motorway" was a top five hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1977, and their third single, "Up Against the Wall", is seen by some as a classic punk rock single; [2] [3] while their debut album, Power in the Darkness (1978), is regarded as a definitive ...
This is the discography of British singer-songwriter Tom Robinson.He has released one studio album as part of Café Society, two as part of the Tom Robinson Band, one as part of Sector 27, one as part of Faith, Folk and Anarchy, one with King Crimson lead singer Jakko Jakszyk and eight solo albums.
Tom Robinson, 24, was rescued by a cruise ship on Friday after his distress beacon was activated when his boat capsized. He was approximately 185km from Vanuatu, en route from Peru to Australia.
[6] [7] The No. 6 spot was just short of the achievement of his 1977 single "2-4-6-8 Motorway" with the Tom Robinson Band, which reached No. 5. [7] It reached No. 1 on the UK Indie chart and stayed at No. 1 for three weeks. It later appeared on Robinson's 1984 album Hope and Glory and revived his career. [3]
Sector 27 were an English new wave band founded in 1979 by Tom Robinson.Their 1980 debut album, Sector 27, was produced by Steve Lillywhite.Robinson subsequently left the band, and the band continued without him for a number of years.