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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Curt Smith and Roland Orzabel of Tears for Fears, (Credit: Steve Rapport/Getty Images) Tears For Fears co-founders Roland Orzabal ...

When Tears for Fears' single "Shout" hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart on Aug. 3, 1985, it signaled another major turning point in the band's career. By that time, the group had already become a force ...

In 1985, this song, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," was a Top-10 hit for the British pop group Tears for Fears, and it was only the first of many. On MTV and on the radio, their music was ...

Tear for Fears frontman Curt Smith and his daughter gave a quarantined mini concert from their home, and the song they appropriately sang together was none other than “Mad World.” British ’80s New ...

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.

The singer and bassist opens up to PEOPLE about struggling during the band's peak in the 1980s Dia Dipasupil/Getty Back in the '80s, Tears for Fears was on top of the music world. But despite the huge ...

Forty years ago, armored with adolescent angst and a talent for songwriting, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith formed one of pop music’s most influential duos, Tears For Fears. In 1982, they topped the ...