Neon also featured Pete Byrne and Rob Fisher, who went on to become Naked Eyes. Shortly afterwards, Orzabal and Smith became session musicians for the band Neon, where they first met future Tears for Fears drummer Manny Elias.

The single just missed the top 100 in the UK, but performed well in Spain and in Switzerland. In 1980, Graduate released an album, Acting My Age, and a single 'Elvis Should Play Ska' (referring to Elvis Costello). Their professional debut came with the band Graduate, a mod revival/new wave act whose influences included the Jam and two-tone music. Orzabal and Smith met as teenagers in Bath, Somerset, England. 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'. After being in development for almost a decade, the band's seventh album, The Tipping Point, was released in 2022, giving the band their sixth UK Top 5 album and their highest chart peak in 30 years, and reaching the Top 10 in numerous other countries, including the US. The duo have toured on a semi-regular basis since then. Orzabal and Smith reconciled in 2000 and released an album of new material, Everybody Loves a Happy Ending, in 2004. Orzabal retained the Tears for Fears name as a solo project, releasing the albums Elemental (1993) – which produced the international hit ' Break It Down Again' – and Raoul and the Kings of Spain (1995). Their belated follow-up, The Seeds of Love (1989), entered the UK chart at number one and yielded the transatlantic top 5 hit ' Sowing the Seeds of Love'.Īfter touring The Seeds of Love in 1990, Smith and Orzabal had an acrimonious split. The album contained two Billboard Hot 100 number one hits: ' Shout' and ' Everybody Wants to Rule the World', both of which reached the top five in the UK with the latter winning the Brit Award for Best British Single in 1986. Their second album, Songs from the Big Chair (1985), reached number one on the US Billboard 200, achieving multi-platinum status in both the UK and the US. The band's debut 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. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, Tears for Fears were associated with the new wave synthesizer bands of the 1980s, and attained international chart success as part of the Second British Invasion. Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath, Somerset, in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith.

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