Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tears For Fears co-founders Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith named their band after a phrase from the writings of Arthur Janov, the ...

Nobody would expect a band that brought dissociative identity disorder and Janovian theory to the top of the charts to rest easy during a recording hiatus that lasted for almost two decades. But the ...

Rounding out a decade that had seen them triumph as transatlantic chart-toppers, the Bath, UK-hailing duo Tears for Fears' extraordinary 1989 single Sowing the Seeds of Love firmly underlined the pair ...

When the 80s prog-pop duo returned after 17 years away, they had a lot to say via their seventh album The Tipping Point ...

When one thinks of English new wave from the 1980s, one often thinks of Tears For Fears. Casual fans might know them for “Mad World”, but the pop-rock duo is known for so much more incredible ...

Last week, Tears for Fears kicked off a North American tour with openers Garbage. The British band was in fine form from the start, with co-founders Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith spinning through a ...

The 40th anniversary of Tears For Fears' "Songs From The Big Chair" album is being celebrated by the syndicated radio show In The Studio With Redbeard: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Rock Bands ...

Tears for Fears pretty much ruled the music world for a time in 1985 thanks to their hit album Songs from the Big Chair. Now, the British New Wave duo is set to celebrate the album’s 40th anniversary ...

“In early 2020, [cofounder] Curt [Smith] and I sat down together with just a couple of acoustic guitars. The first time in decades," cofounder Roland Orzabal said of "No Small Thing" in a press ...

Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously appeared in Entertainment Weekly and the New York Daily News.

In hindsight, 1983 was a groundbreaking year for music. The blockbuster album era began, as Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and the Police’s “Synchronicity” dominated the No. 1 slots on the U.S.

Seventeen years after Tears for Fears last released an album of new music, the beloved band behind “Head Over Heels,” “Shout” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” will return in 2022 with The ...