War Baby (song) - Wikipedia - Recent changes [en]

Robinson describes writing the song, whilst stoned, after a bad experience at a gay sauna, he "...wrote straight down 'only the very young and the very beautiful can be so aloof.' And the rest of it poured out onto the page, eight, ten pages of the stuff, just hand-written, [[stream of consciousness]] stuff. And it took about a year to get those ten pages down to something that you could actually sing in four minutes."<ref name=QMH />

Robinson describes writing the song, whilst stoned, after a bad experience at a gay sauna, he "...wrote straight down 'only the very young and the very beautiful can be so aloof.' And the rest of it poured out onto the page, eight, ten pages of the stuff, just hand-written, [[stream of consciousness]] stuff. And it took about a year to get those ten pages down to something that you could actually sing in four minutes."<ref name=QMH />

The song has been described as being about his experiences of the divisions between [[East and West Germany]].<ref name=GLBTQ /> However, it has also been said that "As to what it's actually about, Tom Robinson himself couldn't tell you – he just wrote what 'sounded right.'"<ref name="A Smith">{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Adam P W|title=War Baby: Hope And Glory [1984]|url=http://tomrobinson.bandcamp.com/album/war-baby-hope-and-glory-1984|work=tomrobinson.bandcamp.com|accessdate=23 November 2013}}</ref>

The song has been described as being about his experiences of the divisions between East and [[West Germany]].<ref name=GLBTQ /> However, it has also been said that "As to what it's actually about, Tom Robinson himself couldn't tell you – he just wrote what 'sounded right.'"<ref name="A Smith">{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Adam P W|title=War Baby: Hope And Glory [1984]|url=http://tomrobinson.bandcamp.com/album/war-baby-hope-and-glory-1984|work=tomrobinson.bandcamp.com|accessdate=23 November 2013}}</ref>

He returned to the UK, recorded and released the song, promoted it in a series of late night [[cabaret]] performances at the [[Edinburgh Fringe]]<ref name=TRCoBio /> and, once it had charted, appeared on ''[[Top of the Pops]]''.<ref>{{YouTube|Vh_eFcfNSJs|Tom Robinson: War Baby on Top Of The Pops, 30 June 1983}}</ref>

He returned to the UK, recorded and released the song, promoted it in a series of late night [[cabaret]] performances at the [[Edinburgh Fringe]]<ref name=TRCoBio /> and, once it had charted, appeared on ''[[Top of the Pops]]''.<ref>{{YouTube|Vh_eFcfNSJs|Tom Robinson: War Baby on Top Of The Pops, 30 June 1983}}</ref>