Tears for Fears
Tears for Fears is a successful British band from Bath, England.
History
In 1981 were founded Tears for Fears Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith of. The band name they took a book by the American psychotherapist and founder of Primal Therapy Arthur Janov. Janov's themes are the basis for many of the lyrics of the band.
Before their first official album they released as a band Graduate, emerged from a school band, 1980, the album Acting My Age. Orzabal was here already singer and songwriter. Other musicians: Steve Buck, Andy Marsden and John Baker. The style was a completely different, more towards ska to pop.
Their first published in spring 1983 album The Hurting expressed his difficult childhood Orzabals and had a very unique sound. For this globally successful album four singles were released: Suffer the Children, Change, Mad World and Pale Shelter. 2000 took Gary Jules and Michael Andrews Mad World song as the theme song for the film Donnie Darko new on, and thus came the end of 2003 in the charts in the UK even at square one.
The data published in the spring of 1985 second album Songs from the Big Chair Tears for Fears found her - for the overloaded synth-pop of the late eighties typical - sound, which henceforth became her trademark. The album made her famous on both sides of the Atlantic. The two singles compilations taken Shout (1984) and Everybody Wants to Rule the World ( 1985) are still going strong today radio stations. The latter song was elected to the United States the most famous song of the year and just ten years later honored for two million airplay.
On these first two albums were the two band members Manny Elias (drums) and Ian Stanley (keyboards) involved. Stanley is also co-author of the hits Shout, Everybody Wants to Rule the World and Mothers Talk.
The Launched in autumn 1989, third album The Seeds of Love, on which Ian Stanley participated for the last time as a band member, showed influences from jazz and blues. In her hit single Sowing the Seeds of Love, the influence of The Beatles could be felt; this concept album reminiscent of their Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Single Woman in Chains Phil Collins played drums. Oleta Adams, who could begin by Orzabals commitment a successful solo career, was involved as a singer and pianist on the album. Under the pseudonym Johnny Panic Tears For Fears publish the dance song Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams.
After their last tour together The Seeds of Love, Curt Smith rose from the end of 1990. The from this period published under the band name albums produced Orzabal alone.
Since 2000, Orzabal and Smith have contact with each other again. Published in 2004, the two musicians again a common Album: Everybody Loves a Happy Ending.
2008, both band members had reunited again for the concept Tour The Nokia Night of the Proms and were there live with the songs Sowing the Seeds of Love, Mad World, Everybody Wants to Rule the World and Shout on stage.