Post by ©KAJAMANIA Board Team (Slim K) on Mar 9, 2004 16:08:07 GMT -5
hi Kajamaniac'sTears for Fears Reunites after 13 Years!!!;
Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith Sign with Arista Records to Release Their First Album since 1989;
Due Spring 2004!!!
"NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 2003"
Performed for the First Time in over a Decade at Andre Agassi's "Grand Slam for Children" Benefit
Tears For Fears founders Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith are back together after 13 years, and have signed an exclusive worldwide recording contract with Arista Records, it was announced today by Antonio "L.A." Reid, President and CEO, Arista Records.
One of the most beloved British bands to emerge in the post-New Wave era of the early 1980s, Tears For Fears broke through in 1985 with the back-to-back hit singles "Everybody Wants To Rule the World" (#1 US, #2 UK), "Shout" (#1 US, #4 UK), and "Head Over Heels" (#3 US, #12 UK). The hits sent TFF's second album, Songs From the Big Chair, to #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart for 5 weeks that July and August. The album went on to spend 83 weeks on the US chart (where it was certified 5-times platinum by the RIAA) and 81 weeks on the UK chart.
Tears For Fears came together in 1981, after childhood friends Orzabal and Smith (who grew up together in Bath, England) made their first records with the white ska band Graduate. TFF took their name from the teachings of Arthur Janov (whose primal scream theory greatly influenced John Lennon). They released their first singles in 1982 ("Mad World," #3 UK) and '83 ("Change," #4 UK; and "Pale Shelter," #5 UK), all from their debut album, The Hurting.
After the broad success of Songs From the Big Chair and the debilitating world tour that followed (which included concerts to raise funds for African famine relief), Tears For Fears took a long recess. They returned in 1989 with an amazing new single, "Sowing the Seeds Of Love" (#2 US, #5 UK) and the platinum album The Seeds Of Love (#1 UK, #8 US). The album included "Woman In Chains" which launched the career of guest vocalist Oleta Adams, who was singing at a Kansas City hotel lounge when Orzabal and Smith first discovered her during a TFF tour.
After Smith's departure in 1991 to pursue solo projects, a TFF 'greatest hits' collection was issued in '92 (Tears Roll Down). Orzabal continued with Tears For Fears, releasing Elemental in 1993, and Raoul And the Kings Of Spain in 1995, the final album until now. Solo projects from Smith (1998's Mayfield, on his own Zero-Disc label) and Orzabal (2001's Tomcats Screaming Outside) have kept them busy until the time was right to reconvene Tears For Fears in 2003.
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