The Hurting, the debut studio album byTears for Fears, celebrates its 40thanniversary this year. To celebrate, it will be reissued on 12 May as an Abbey Road Half Speed Mastered vinyl and as a newly created Dolby Atmos mix by renowned artist and mixer, Steven Wilson. You can pre-order i...
Tears For Fears are considered by many to be one of the best musical artists of the '80s. Forming in the early 1980s, British duo Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith blended MTV-friendly synth pop with more mainstream rocks sounds, producing hit albums like The Hurting (1983), Songs From the ...
The years have both scarred and enlivenedTears for Fears. Their 2022 comeback albumThe Tipping Pointwas sparked by a reunion, for the first time since 2004, between Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith after Orzabal's wife died in 2017. The album was informed by her death, as well as the newly...
Tears For Fearsonly released three albums in the decade ‘they’ call the 1980s and then promptly split up (for a while, at least). But what albums they are! The Hurting(1983),Songs From The Big Chair(1985) andThe Seeds of Love(1989) were all hit records but offer the listener some...
Tear For Fears– Roland Orzabal (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Curt Smith (vocals, bass, keyboards) formed in Bath, England in 1981. As Orzabal says in the reissue’s Aug. 19 announcement, “Out of all our albums, I’d probably rank it highest. I think it surprised a lot of people...
Tears for Fearswere working on material for what would become their second album, 1985’sSongs from the Big Chair. Indirectly,Don Henleyprovided an important piece of inspiration. As bassist and vocalist Curt Smith reveals, the band was in a familiar spot, where their record label was interferi...
Tears for Fears: Just So-So in ‘The Seeds of Love’ : TEARS FOR FEARS ‘The Seeds of Love.” Mercury ** 1/2: Albums are rated on a scale of one (poor) to five (a classic) stars. The teeth are back. But the techno-pop programming isn’t. Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, the...
Tears for Fears Travel Fan Quarterly Update…90+ Days of Bliss and Superfanitis Dedicated to Penny in Canada who worked with fellow travel fans to ensure they got premium seats and then gave away an extra set of tickets. That said a lot. Thank you so much Penny! Those seats were ...
Tears For Fears - No Small Thing (Official Music Video) Click to load video “Before everything went so right with this album, everything first had to go wrong,” says Orzabal. “It took years, but something happens when we put our heads together. We’ve got this balance, this push-...
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