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Tom Robinson Band : Too Good To Be True

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The new Tom Robinson Band single, "Too Good To Be True",  is released in August of 1978.  It almost sounds like something off an Alan Parsons Project album. Not that that is a bad thing. It comes from Power in the Darkness, TRB"s debut album.

Also on August 15, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played another epic concert. The venue was the Capitol Center in Landover, MD. Among the highlights that night, captured on video, is the performance of "Prove It All Night" with a nearly 6 minute long guitar solo by Springsteen. As one fan wrote, THIS is what we called him "The Boss".

Sullen, Unhealthy and Mean

Tom Robinson Band : Up Against The Wall

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On May 7, 1978,  one of England's most political groups, Tom Robinson Band,  entered the U.K. charts at #35 with their new single, "Up Against the Wall".  The lead-off track from Power in the Darkness, this punk anthem can be interpreted as a call to arms among England's punks to resist the government's fascist thugs carving up the welfare state. It's lost none of its power  over 40 years and its themes are so relevant today that the North Carolina alternative band Superchunk recently recorded the song as a B side to a single to benefit Planned Parenthood.