Tears For Fears – Head Over Heels
Head Over Heels, from Songs from the Big Chair (1985): UK No. 12, US Billboard Hot 100 No. 3.
Songs from the Big Chair – Therapy scaled to MTV and US No. 1
In February 1985, Tears for Fears released Songs from the Big Chair, scaling the therapy themes of The Hurting to MTV and US number one.
Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Tears For Fears’ Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Songs from the Big Chair, 1985): Orzabal/Smith, Hughes, US No. 1.
Tears For Fears – Therapy hooks built for arenas
Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith formed Tears For Fears in Bath, named the project after a therapy text, and then wrote pop singles precise enough for arenas and literate enough for headphones.
Tears For Fears – Shout
In late 1984 at the Wool Hall, Roland Orzabal played Chris Hughes a drum-machine chorus he thought was only an album track.
Tears For Fears – Mad World
On 20 September 1982 Mercury released Mad World, written by Roland Orzabal above a Bath pizza shop and sung by Curt Smith.
Tears For Fears – Woman In Chains
In August 1985, on a Kansas City stop, Tears for Fears heard Oleta Adams in a hotel bar and later built Woman in Chains around her voice.