Graduate (Pre-Tears For Fears) Mad One 1st Single

This is a cleaned and adjusted vinyl rip from my copy of the first ever release by Roland Orzabal (who wrote the song and sang vocals) with Curt Smith two years before they formed Tears For Fears. The Story goes In July 1979, Graduate spent three days in Bath’s Crescent Studios.
From this session, Mad One / Somebody Put Out The Fire was picked for release as a 45 on the small indie label Blue Hat.
They wrote ‘Mad One’ after being commissioned to do so by Tony Hill, an eccentric man with a successful car number plate business. Mr. Hill offered to pay for the studio time if the band would agree to write and record a song about him. He owned a car with the license plate “MAD 1”, hence the title of the song.
Only a few dozen copies of the single were pressed, and those were most likely used to promote Mr. Hill’s business.
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