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Tears for Fears, named after a phrase found in Arthur Janov’s book Prisoners of Pain, are a British pop/rock
outfitformed in 1981 inBath, England, by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, two school friends and ex-members of
Graduate.Initially associated with new wave andthe new romantic movements, the duo’s earliest work (through 1983’s
The Hurting)was explicitly based around the confusion and angst ofadolescence. Though top forty regulars on both sides
of the Atlantic,Orzabal and Smith made their major international breakthrough withSongs From the Big Chair< ...read more
Tears for Fears, named after a phrase found in Arthur Janov’s book Prisoners of Pain, are a British pop/rock
outfitformed in 1981 inBath, England, by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, two school friends and ex-members of
Graduate.Initially associated with new wave andthe new romantic movements, the duo’s earliest work (through 1983’s
The Hurting)was explicitly based around the confusion and angst ofadolescence. Though top forty regulars on both sides
of the Atlantic,Orzabal and Smith made their major international breakthrough withSongs From the Big Chair in 1985, which
included theirmost commercially popular material to date (scoring two Billboard Hot 100 #1sand a UK #2).
They released three albums - the synthesizer-based The Hurting (1983), Songs from the Big Chair (1985)
(whichbroke free from thenew-wave mold) and the jazz/blues/Beatles influenced The Seeds of Love (1989) - before
Orzabal andSmith had an extremelyacrimonious falling out.
The split of the duo was ultimately blamed on Orzabal’s intricate but frustrating approach to production and Smith’s distaste
forthe pop musicworld. The two spent the 1990s working separately. « hide |
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