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"War Baby" is a song by Tom Robinson, which was issued as a single in 1983, reaching no 6 on the UK singles chart, and also featured on Robinson's 1984 album ''Hope and Glory''. ==Background== After the break-up of his band Sector 27, Robinson was "massively into debt, particularly with the British tax authorities", was "technically bankrupt",〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tomrobinson.com/pages/biog.htm )〕 and depressed, so in 1982 he went to stay with a friend in Hamburg, Germany. He learnt German and started playing in Germany, including in East Berlin (7 years before the fall of the Berlin Wall), with East German band NO 55. 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."〔 The song has been described as being about his experiences of the divisions between East and West Germany.〔 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."" He returned to the UK, recorded and released the song, promoting it in a series of late night cabaret performances at the Edinburgh Fringe.〔 and, once it had charted, also appearing on Top of the Pops. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「War Baby (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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