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Was There D.R.A.M.A. When ‘Years and Years’ Went From Being A Band To A Solo Project For Olly Alexander? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, singer, actor, and all
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Speaker 1: around entertainer. All the Alexander has been releasing music as
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Speaker 1: the frontman of the band Years and Years since two
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Speaker 1: thousand ten, but in March, Alie announced a new Years
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Speaker 1: and Years album as a solo artist, and there's no
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Speaker 1: bad blood between the former trio. In fact, all he
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Speaker 1: tells the w the decision to go their separate ways
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Speaker 1: happened pretty organically, saying, I've been making music by myself
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Speaker 1: for the last eighteen months, and prior to that, as
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Speaker 1: we were making the second album, we had already kind
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Speaker 1: of begun to make music separately. Over the years we
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Speaker 1: grew upart musically as a band from when we had started.
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Speaker 1: Nothing bad happened. It just happened naturally. His very first
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Speaker 1: Years and Years solo song called Starstruck is catching fire,
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