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Tears for Fears

Last album: October 17, 1990
First published: June 11, 2009
Downloads: 2261 albums downloaded

Biography

Tears for Fears, named after a phrase found in Arthur Janov's book Prisoners of Pain, are a British pop/rock outfit formed in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, two school friends and ex-members of Graduate. Initially associated with new wave and the New Romantic movements, the duo's earliest work (through 1983's The Hurting) was explicitly based around the confusion and angst of adolescence - though top forty regulars on both sides of the Atlantic, Orzabal and Smith made their major international breakthrough with Songs From the Big Chair in 1985...