Tears For Fears
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Interview by Johnny Black, Smash Hits, 23 December 1982
Lest you harbour any doubts as to why Tears For Fears have taken over five months to record their first album, the answer is simple. ...
Singles Reviewed by MARK COOPER
Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 22 January 1983
THE GAP BAND 'Outstanding' (Polygram) Yet another soul concerto from The Gap Band with a monstrously hard-hitting handclap from the engine room and a vocal ...
Tears for Fears: The Hurting (Mercury)
Review by Gavin Martin, New Musical Express, 12 March 1983
THE STORY so far...Roland and Curt are two everyday morose ex Joy Division fans. Sullen, sad and ashen faced they do not feel a part ...
Tears For Fears: Primal Therapy Cures Mental Hurting
Interview by Laura Fissinger, Creem, October 1983
NEW YORK — Think about the reasons people give for starting bands. To get money. To get girls. To stand tall as a wimp in ...
Tears For Fears: Talking in Riddles
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 26 November 1983
Adam Sweeting tolerates the serious posturings of TEARS FOR FEARS. ...
Tears For Fears: Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
Live Review by Penny Kiley, Melody Maker, 10 December 1983
THE LIGHT show was the best thing about it. But then a "computerised lighting display" is something to compete with. And if Tears For Fears ...
Tears For Fears: City Hall, Sheffield
Live Review by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 24 April 1985
IT'S HALF PAST eight and Curt and Roland have these 'If it's Monday this must be Sheffield' glazed looks on their faces. Already well into ...
Tears for Fears: The Stunning, The Lovely & The Brilliant
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, May 1985
BATH, ENGLAND In America, people take baths; in England, they not only take them but live in them. And they pronounce them funny ...
Tears For Fears: "We're going to weird out like you wouldn't believe!"
Interview by Chris Heath, Smash Hits, 1 January 1986
1985 was quite a year for Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal. They had a number one single and album in America and massive hits just ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, September 1989
Three years. Four producers. Nine studios. A million pounds. One album. When Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal began recording the successor to their nine million-selling ...
Tears For Fears: The Seeds Of Love
Review by Lloyd Bradley, Q, October 1989
FOUR YEARS and the best part of £1 million are ominous amounts of time and money to spend following up a huge-selling album. In this ...
Tears for Fears: Fear of Finishing
Report and Interview by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, November 1989
Songs From The Big Delay: How Tears For Fears Took Four Years To Sprout The Seeds of Love ...
Tears for Fears: The Seeds Of Love (PolyGram) ****
Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 2 November 1989
AFTER THE release of Tears For Fears' mammoth-selling second album, Songs From the Big Chair, in 1985, an English music paper remarked, "It'll soon be ...
Tears For Fears: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Barbara Ellen, New Musical Express, 24 March 1990
WOTCHA, MY name's Dave. Usually I enjoy my work as a tout, but tonight's Tears For Fears gig at the Arena is looking decidedly untasty. ...
Knebworth 90: The Billion Dollar Buskers
Live Review by Mat Snow, Q, August 1990
IN DAYS OF yore, the elders tell, the grassy slopes of Knebworth would resound to the pagan strains of Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers and ...
Review by Chas de Whalley, Vox, July 1993
THEY RULED THE WORLD... they ran the world. They sowed the seeds of love... they got divorced. Quite an achievement for a duo who released ...
ABC & Tears For Fears: Compilations
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, June 2001
Tears For Fears: between two stools. ABC: cool disco sheen. That was then. Early Eighties pop revisited Hello! — An Introduction To ABC The Working Hour — ...
This Is Going To Hurt: The Mad World Of Tears For Fears’ Debut LP
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 20 September 2013
In his 100th piece for The Quietus, Wyndham Wallace talks to five key figures behind Tears for Fears to present an epic oral history of ...
see also Oleta Adams
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