Recently while anticipating Tears For Fears’ long-awaited concert at PNC Music Pavilion, my husband declared “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” as the seminal ‘80s song. It was hard to argue watching ...

TEARS FOR FEARS: (Singing) 'Cause you know that I love you, girl. You're my way out of hell. But I've just one more song to sing, one more story to tell. SIMON: The band, known for '80s hit songs that ...

Fans of Tears for Fears songs, of course, will argue the band never went out of vogue. Their faithful followers proved just that by going head over heels (wink!) when the guys headlined a 2022 world ...

Tears for Fears were working on material for what would become their second album, 1985’s Songs from the Big Chair. Indirectly, Don Henley provided an important piece of inspiration. As bassist and ...

’80s new wave greats Tears For Fears are one of the few acts who have appeared in both of our chart columns, The Number Ones and The Alternative Number Ones, and they’re still going strong today.

Tears For Fears co-founders Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith named their band after a phrase from the writings of Arthur Janov, the psychologist who popularized primal scream therapy. The British duo’s ...

BOSTON — For all those pop lovers who have been shedding tears waiting for the next Tears for Fears record, stop your sobbing. The British technopop duo that topped the charts in the 1980s with the ...

Written by Orzabal and sung by Curt Smith, “Mad World” reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1982. In the U.S., ...

When Tears for Fears took the Leader Bank Pavilion stage on Wednesday, they came armed with one thing that a band of its vintage and history typically has in its possession and one thing that it ...

Tears for Fears was one of those bands that, for an era or so, helped define popular music, were part of the sound of a moment — that era of course being the ’80s. Their music and songs, “Shout,” ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. Scott Simon speaks with Roland Orzabal and ...