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Tears for Fears

Formé en 1981

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Tears for Fears, parfois abrégé en TFF et plus rarement en T4F, est un groupe pop rock britannique, originaire de Bath, en Angleterre. Formé par Roland Orzabal et Curt Smith en 1981, le groupe, initialement affilié au mouvement new wave, a vendu plus de trente millions d'albums à travers le monde (dont près de dix millions pour les seuls États-Unis et plus d'un million et demi en France). Ses trois albums studio parus dans les années 1980 cumulent à eux seuls plus de vingt millions d'exemplaires vendus.

La période faste pour Tears for Fears s'étend sur dix ans, de 1983 à 1993, après quoi la formation subit une baisse de ses ventes. Durant sa carrière, le groupe a connu plusieurs hits mondiaux, dont les plus emblématiques restent sans doute Shout, Everybody Wants to Rule the World et Sowing the Seeds of Love, sans oublier leur premier succès, Mad World.

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Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath in 1981 by Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, Tears for Fears were associated with the synth-pop bands of the 1980s, and attained international chart success as part of the Second British Invasion.

The band's debut studio album, The Hurting (1983), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and their first three hit singles – "Mad World", "Change", and "Pale Shelter" – all reached the top five in the UK singles chart. Their second studio album, Songs from the Big Chair (1985), reached number one on the US Billboard 200, achieving multi-platinum status in both the US and the UK. The album contained two US Billboard Hot 100 number one hits: "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"; both songs reached the top five in the UK, and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" won the Brit Award for Best British Single in 1986. Their third studio album, The Seeds of Love (1989), entered the UK chart at number one and yielded the transatlantic top five hit "Sowing the Seeds of Love".

After touring The Seeds of Love in 1990, Orzabal and Smith had an acrimonious split. Orzabal retained the Tears for Fears name as a solo project, releasing the studio albums Elemental (1993) – which produced the international hit "Break It Down Again" – and Raoul and the Kings of Spain (1995). Orzabal and Smith reconciled in 2000 and released a studio album of new material, Everybody Loves a Happy Ending, in 2004. The duo have toured on a semi-regular basis since then. After being in development for almost a decade, the band's seventh studio album, The Tipping Point, was released in 2022, giving the band their sixth UK top five album and their highest chart peak in thirty years and reaching the Top 10 in numerous other countries, including the US.

In 2021, Orzabal and Smith were honoured with the Ivor Novello Award for 'Outstanding Song Collection' recognising their "era-defining Tears for Fears albums" and "critically acclaimed, innovative hit singles".

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