S1E22: Roland Orzabal

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this week’s episode of Rockonteurs, Guy and Gary talk to Roland Orzabal from Tears for Fears. They are a British band who created some of the defining albums of the 80’s and achieved huge success on both sides of the Atlantic. In this open, honest and revealing conversation, Roland discusses his first meeting with Curt Smith, the highs and lows of 80’s stardom, missing out on Live Aid and how he and his band mate are soon to release a new record that they are both incredibly excited about.

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0:00.0	Right, so Dominion voting systems are suing Giuliani for 1.2 billion dollars.
0:08.0	Are they? Are they really? What is, what is their, what are they saying?
0:11.5	Well, he's made shit up
0:12.8	simple as that they're not complaining about his hair dye
0:17.6	yeah obviously he represents them really badly that's one point
0:21.8	2 billion dollars of anyone's money. I am
0:24.3	listen thank you for this week people who listen to this because you know we're
0:29.2	back at number one on the podcast thing and whatever it is charts I mean getting getting
0:35.0	getting your podcast chart in is a bit like the old Tuesdays when in the 80s
0:39.4	when we used to get the chart positions or even when it sort of I remember you know 1972 you know
0:44.7	waiting to see where T-Rex went in in the top 30 and now I just look at the
0:48.8	podcast charts yeah the trouble thing is you check every day though don't you let's be
0:52.2	honest yeah there's no one there's The trouble thing is you check every day though, don't you? Let's be honest.
0:53.0	Yeah, there's no one, there's no one listening today.
0:57.0	We're gonna, we've got Ronan Orsable in today and I'm, I'm, I think this guy guy is I mean in a way I have to be absolutely honest I sort of dismissed
1:08.5	Tears for Fears in the 80s why because I was threatened by how good they were.
1:14.0	You know, okay, they weren't the gang mentality.
1:18.0	They weren't the team, you know, the gerans or the, you know,
1:21.0	they, these were artists, these two guys, and we all knew, you know,
1:25.2	Roland was very much at the heart of that.
1:27.0	Yeah, but I, well I love them because, but like, they always for me fed into that whole
1:30.9	Peter Gabriel thing that I was, that I was was into and I played on one of their records
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