Tears for Fears’ Roland Orzabal Teaches Adam Carolla Astrology + RFK Destroys CNN

**Adam Carolla** (0:00)
Well, in this episode, the guy from Tears for Fears, very interesting conversation with Roland Orzabal. And also Elisha Krauss has the news, and we'll do that right after this.

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**SPEAKER_4** (1:42)
From Carolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today from Tears for Fears, Roland Orzabal, plus the news with Elisha Krauss and now, Adam Carolla.

**Adam Carolla** (1:57)
Yeah, get it on.

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**Adam Carolla** (2:00)
Mandate, you get it on. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling a friend.
Love that about you. Roland Orzabal, Tears for Fears from, where are you zooming in from?

**Roland Orzabal** (2:12)
New England.

**Adam Carolla** (2:14)
New England?

**Roland Orzabal** (2:15)
South Coast, Massachusetts.

**Adam Carolla** (2:17)
Wouldn't have guessed that. So, I was just telling Roland off the air that he was on Love Line in 1995, which would have been my first year of being involved with that show. So, vague memories. But I grew up in Southern California and K-Rock Radio was probably playing Tears for Fears pretty early on for you guys, as I recall.

**Roland Orzabal** (2:44)
It was, yeah.

**Adam Carolla** (2:46)
You guys, out of England, friends together, right, since you were teens?

**Roland Orzabal** (2:54)
Yeah, 14, around the age of 14, when we sort of met each other and yeah, it became musical quite early on because Kurt was a sort of bedroom singer.
Singing to himself, singing along to records and sounding very much like the singer with all the apparent emotion. It was good and I was in a band, a bad trio of heavy metal wannabes, and we asked Kurt if he would come and sing with us. That was the start.

**Adam Carolla** (3:36)
And you started, I mean, I was reading up that it was more influenced by, I don't know, Thin Lizzy and bands like that when you were younger. Maybe, I don't know, people might be surprised that Tears for Fears was inspired by some of the heavier bands, but on the other hand, I don't know, there wasn't really any Tears for Fears type bands to be inspired by back then, as I'm thinking about it.

**Roland Orzabal** (4:05)
There weren't. I mean, we formed Tears for Fears at the birth of the electronica explosion.
It all came nicely together. I'm not quite sure why, but I'd always been exposed to the choir at school, and exposed to the orchestra at school, exposed to folk music, exposed to rock music. When all of a sudden, I had the synthesizer in front of me, I found that I was pretty good at it. I could arrange things in a new way, rather than relying on that bass player, that drummer, that guitarist, that keyboard player. So it was really quite an amazing experience for me. We went really from, as I said, from heavy metal wannabes into modern and post-punk wannabes, to almost becoming not at the forefront, but near the forefront of electronica.

**Adam Carolla** (5:19)
Yeah, because back then, in a lot of bands out of England, it was all new wave. I mean, you know, it was Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson. People forget about the old Joe Jackson, but Look Sharp, I'm the Man, like Hard, Beautiful, some of the best albums. You guys, you know, melodic Joe Jackson, but you don't know edgy Joe Jackson from I'm the Man and Look Sharp.