Eighties pop icons unrecognisable forty years after huge chart hits, bitter band split and surprise reunion
THEY achieved chart success in the 80s and secured the number one position on the UK Albums Chart with their debut album.
However, it wasn't until their second album claimed the number one spot on the US Billboard 200 that the band catapulted into an entirely new level of fame.The duo gracefully aged, transitioning from both sporting black curly hair, to Roland now flaunting long white locks, while Curt opts for a buzz cut.most famous songs include Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Shout, Mad World, Head Over Heels, and Sowing the Seeds of Love.
The band split because Curt and Roland didn't agree on how to make music together, and they needed a break from being in the band.VERY SOURto work with other songwriters including Dan Smith from Bastille and Sacha Skarbek, who wrote James Blunt’s You’re Beautiful and Miley Cyrus’s Wrecking Ball. Orzabal told The Sun: “Our then manager didn’t want to sell us any more in terms of being recording artists."He wanted us just to be like a heritage artist. One of the first times he’d seen us play live in Dallas, he saw that we were good and wanted us on the road.
“Straight away he saw the money potential from touring, but he didn’t instinctively trust us just to do our own thing and make a real Tears For Fears album. He wanted to inject some alien DNA, shall we say.”
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