War Baby (song) nine weeks in the Top 40. 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. 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. Robinson has said that although "My flip answer to the question of what song am I the most proud is "(Wish I Had a) Grey Cortina" ... the true answer is "War Baby" is the song that I'm
Tom Robinson "Glad to be Gay" and "1967 (So Long Ago)" — during June of that year at The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979). In 1980, Robinson organised Sector 27, a less political rock band that released a critically acclaimed but unsuccessful album, "Sector 27", produced by Steve Lillywhite. The band nevertheless received an enthusiastic reception at a Madison Square Garden concert with The Police. However, their management company went bankrupt, the band disintegrated, and Robinson suffered another nervous breakdown. Desolate, in debt, and sorrowing from a breakup with a beau, Robinson fled to Hamburg, Germany, much like his idol David Bowie .