Roland Orzabal

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

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So when we made it really big,

That's all I had in the back of my mind.

I knew that what was going on with all the success was lovely, it was beautiful, but that wasn't exactly what I had intended.

So after all that, you know, the incredible period of Big Chair and the success, I then started primal therapy on my own in London, yeah.

Well, it was quite simple, I think.

Caesar Love maybe was sort of my child, maybe a bit more than it was the pair of us.

And I got Alisa Adams involved.

Suddenly there were three singers.

The stage show completely changed from what it was when we were at our commercial peak.

And...

Our manager at the time, Paul King, I didn't realise, but he was also a promoter and he made a huge punt on a Genesis show, which lost money.

So he was financially in peril.

We also took four years to make Seeds of Love, which made him even more in peril.

And then when we were touring, I found out by the swimming pool, via our lawyer,

that Paul King had taken all the profits from the tour and put them into his own bank account so he wouldn't go bankrupt more than a million pounds.

If he had, he would have not been able to do business ever again.

So that, for me, was more than a red flag.

I never liked the guy, and I thought, I don't want him to be our manager.

And the problem is...

The problem was, Kurt was his friend, so we really split up because of our manager.

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