It was released as a single by The Assistants, a supergroup featuring Robertson, Dave Edmunds, Cheryl Baker, Junior and Suzi Quatro.
[citation needed] Robertson was a guest presenter on Top of the Pops on 28 August 1980, alongside then-BBC Radio 1 DJ Peter Powell.
[citation needed] In October 1980, Robertson appeared as a guest on the BBC Television chat show Friday Night, Saturday Morning.
In February 1981 Robertson appeared playing live in concert on the BBC joint television and radio programme Rock Goes to College.
[8] Robertson wrote "We Have a Dream" for the 1982 World Cup Scotland squad,[6] and played the lead in the film Living Apart Together, directed by Charlie Gormley.
[citation needed] In 1983 Robertson, along with co-songwriters Terry Britten and Sue Shifrin, won a Razzie Award for the Worst 'Original' Song for "Pumpin' and Blowin'" as featured in the 1982 film The Pirate Movie.
The latter was written after Robertson's father died twelve weeks before the birth of his own son, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1990.
[10] A newly released version of "Silent Running" by Robertson was issued on 22 July 2022, with all proceeds from the recording for the Mail Force-Ukraine Appeal.