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 ...

“All around me are familiar faces, worn out places, worn out faces…” opens Tears For Fears’ classic 1983 song, “Mad World.” It’s the song that made me fall in love with them and it’s the song that set ...

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 ...

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

’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 ...

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 ...

Roland Orzabal knew that he and Tears for Fears partner Curt Smith had something special with their seventh album. “The Tipping Point,” released in February, not only marked the band’s first release ...

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 ...