'Tom Robinson Band - not bad for pedestrian pub rock. I quite liked both of the tunes they kept using.'

TR and the TRB produced two massive hits, 2468 Motorway and Warbaby.
Two of the greatest anthemic English songs ever - Glad to be Gay and Martin. Tom could slip effortlessly from acoustic guitar, to keyboard, to bass guitar - and he was in there supporting everything decent about the English way of life, and the values of a liberal democracy. He was a great bandleader.

This was without the benefit of monopolising the BBC Radio folk programmes, or being given BBC2 hour long programmes and major label writing contracts - before displaying any obvious merit.

He was my kind of folk.