Robert Marlow (born Robert Allen, 21 October 1961) is a synthpop musician and songwriter.
Robert Marlow grew up in Basildon with future Depeche Mode members Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, and Andy Fletcher. He is also tied to Alison Moyet, with whom he played in a band, The Vandals. He knew Andy and Vince from the Basildon chapter of the Boys' Brigade. He and Vince would occasionally get together to play music. Vince on guitar, and Robert on the church's piano. Like Vince, he played in many local bands, and ended up playing in a band, with Vince, called "The Plan," and later "French Look," with Martin Gore and Paul Redmond.
After the release of "Calling All Destroyers," Marlow shifted between acting and bands.
He recorded the album The Peter Pan Effect with his best friend, Vince Clarke in 1983, around the end of Yazoo. The project came around when Marlow was in a band called Film Noir, with now-former keyboardist and guitarist for the Cure, Perry Bamonte. This band supported Depeche Mode on one tour date in Basildon.
Hey yo, it's on, check my catalogue
Bully beats and share the songs
My kush strong I cut along
That gravel road, I travel along
Miniatures, y'all minimal
I kill them all, I finish all
They checking into my history
They found out I've been involved
... is with me, you fucking with me
Want me gone then come and get me
Can't hold me down, they know me now
Over grounds, over clouds
I'm too focus, you hopeless
Thinking now I might go move forward
They got 20 20 I'm a visionary
No dose, still picture mary
Boys say he too changed
I booze that, turn blue black
They heard this, like who's that
I put new school, that boo back
I'm moving out, turn it up
Till someone's saying that's too loud
I'm too hot, I can't cool out
... move crowds
My destination is top of the world
Top of the world
... I'm cold hearted, no die fear
Maybe different, my pop's here
Turn it up, no vouch here
Cheaper cloud my thoughts...
Still drop jewels, the chosen one
Like OC, my flow's numb
Work hard, these days long
... doll, I came... pray to god I'm king now
Don't smell loud, that hate, nah
Swallow it,... I'm real talk, no counterfeit
I came to buzz,... raging on, pay tomorrow
Ray bans like Ray Charles
Name brand like... I cut the bars like crayons
Wishing all this... y'alls is wasted
Good money take all the braces... so close that I can taste it
I'm high as hell, no tippy toes,
Molly paper, switch the road,... we dog wild
It's for the soul man
My destination is top of the world