Roland Orzabal

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114 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

Roland Orzabal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Now, I was a relatively conservative kid doing all the schoolwork, trying to be a good boy and get on at school.

And here was what I considered to be a ruffian.

But what eventually happened was I was in a band with Paul.

It was only guitar, bass, and drums.

And we heard Kurt singing along to a Blue Oyster Cult song in his bedroom.

And I thought, wow, this guy can sing.

He certainly conveyed all the emotions that the song had.

And so we asked Kurt to be our lead singer.

Then we were a four-piece all of a sudden.

So that's how we started.

But then we were in...

It didn't last very long.

Then we were in another band when we were 18.

And that was when we formed Tears for Fears out of the skeleton of that band.

No, I wrote all the first album on my own and The Hurting and Songs of the Big Chair.

I wrote with our producer and keyboard player, Chris Hughes and Ian Stanley, but I still wrote most of the songs.

All the lyrics and melodies have been mine, yeah.

I don't mind that song at all.

I mean, there are other songs I can't listen to, you know.

Yeah, I'm tired of playing that song because it's so repetitive.

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