AUDIO CHAT: Gay rights star Tom Robinson still glad to be touring debut hits 40 years on

But four decades later the 2-4-6-8 Motorway and Glad To Be Gay star believes music doesn't actually change a thing.

It does though provide a tonic for the troops who bring about real change, says the 67-year-old.

And in these times of Trump and Brexit, with the campaign for tolerance far from over, he is on the road reviving fans and fellow human rights lobbyists with a 15 date trip down memory lane.

His 2-4-6-8 Motorway 40th Anniversary Shows will feature in its entirety his 1977 debut album Power In The Darkness. Full tour details at the bottom of this page and for tickets CLICK HERE.

LISTEN: Tom Robinson talks about the tour, his life ad times in the big interview with Graham Walker - hear it in full on his Audioboom channel - CLICK HERE.

In an exclusive chat - listen to it in full - he said: "Things don't change permanently as we have seen with Trump and Brexit. It isn't just like a steady march towards progress.

"Things can easily reverse in a flash, in a twinkling of an eye.

"You can get reverse swing so none of the gains that we have made are necessarily permanent. So I think you have always got to be defending those values. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, as the old cliche goes."

Tom, also an active supporter of Amnesty International, The National Assembly Against Racism and The Samaritans, along with the Peter Tatchell Foundation for Human Rights, said of the power of music: "I've debated it with Billy Bragg. My feeling is that music doesn't actually change anything but what it does do, it provides a tonic for the troops.