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Jason Orange: “Take That robbed me of my voice”
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 1 March 2011
Jason Orange has said that Take That’s first run of success, before their split in 1996, took its toll on him. It’s alright now, though. Probably.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, he said: “I think every person’s job either feeds them or takes from them. Take That, for me, the first time, took from me. It gave me money, it gave me a standard of living, but it robbed me of my voice. To come back as an older adult, on my guard a bit and wiser, I know it sounds melodramatic, but it’s like there’s this thing up there, and we can all give to it and get back from it, and it shines into us, and we can all grow from it. Or it will just rob us again, and we’ll leave, with all this shit that we didn’t say or didn’t do”.
Make of that what you will. Though Orange adds that his band is a lot less likely to fall apart now than in the 1990s: “You see how many bands can’t reunite after a falling out and then still do it. The when-hell-freezes-over sort of thing with the Eagles etc. Basically, we were all grown-ups about our shit, and owned it. If you own your own shit, you can move on. And we all did. From me and Gary having a proper chat, to then instantly falling into each other’s arms and rolling about in my kitchen, laughing, was a moment in my life I will never forget”.
So, that’s nice.
