Roland Orzabal
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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Thank you.
Thank you for having me.
You're very kind.
Well, I have a literary agent in New York called Mark Gottlieb.
And he was taking a book of fiction I'd written called Truth Wall around to various publishers.
And every one of them was saying, what about a memoir?
What about a memoir?
And Mark said to me, how do you feel about it?
I wasn't particularly interested at all because I didn't think that the story was finished.
But I'd had a hankering of writing a book on astrology, which might sound a bit strange to people.
So I wondered if I could combine the two so I could write about my life and Tears for Fears, which are intimately connected.
And that might have been enough, but I wanted to sew in an extra thread of understanding, which I think I've done.
So hopefully...
It's an interesting story, but you might learn something about this subject, which a lot of people do not understand.
let's just start with you and your partnership with kurt smith your your partner in crime and cheers for fears how did you two find each other and what was your background in music that made you consider you know being in a band professionally we had a mutual friend and um i was staying with this guy his name was paul noble in bath i was living in canes from just outside and he said to me one morning um let's go and meet my friend kurt and um
So we went across to what they call the Snowhill Flats in Bath.
It's a big bathstone tower of council flats, state housing or like the projects you would have here.
And we knocked on Kurt's door.
His mother answered and said, you know, shouted to Kurt.
He came to the door, but he wasn't allowed out because he'd thrown someone down the stairs.
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