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Everybody Loves A Happy Ending

Tears For Fears founders Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith are back together after 13 years.

In 1985, Tears For Fears delivered back-to-back hit with "Everybody Wants To Rule the World" (#1 US, #2 UK), "Shout" (#1 US, #4 UK), and "Head Over Heels" (#3 US, #12 UK). from their second album, Songs From The Big Chair.

The album spend 83 weeks on the US chart (it was certified 5-times platinum by the RIAA) and 81 weeks on the UK chart.

Tears For Fears started 1981, when childhood friends Orzabal and Smith (who grew up together in Bath, England) made their first records with the 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.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 2003

Listen to "Closest Thing To Heaven"
(you will need REALplayer)

Streaming RAM format

To listen to 45 second samples of "Everybody Loves A Happy Ending" - Click Here!

Track List

CD lyrics

1.   Everybody Loves A Happy Ending
2.   Closest Thing to Heaven
3.   Call Me Mellow
4.   Size of Sorrow
5.   Who Killed Tangerine?
6.   Quiet Ones
7.   Who You Are
8.   The Devil
9.   Secret World
10. Killing with Kindness
11. Ladybird
12. Last Days on Earth

February 27th, 2006 - Live CD/DVD release of "Secret World"

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Gut Recordings UK released - "Everybody Loves A Happy Ending" on Monday March 7, 2005. This UK edition version of the album includes two exclusive bonus tracks - "Pullin' A Cloud" and "Out Of Control."

The first single taken from the new UK special edition album was "Closest Thing To Heaven". Gut also commissioned a new promo video for the single that was produced in Los Angeles and stars actress Britney ("8 Mile") Murphy.

Windows Media High
http://www.gutrecords.com/tff-streams/tff_hi.wmv

Windows Media Low
http://www.gutrecords.com/tff-streams/tff_low.wmv

Quick Time Low
http://www.gutrecords.com/tff-streams/tff_low.mov

Quick Time High
http://www.gutrecords.com/tff-streams/tff_hi.mov

In addition, there are also selected tracks streamed from the album, "Everybody Loves A Happy Ending".

Closest Thing To Heaven (UK Radio Mix)
http://www.gutrecords.com/tff-streams/closest_thing_to_heaven.mp3

*Closest Thing To Heaven (Brothers In Rhythm - Group Therapy Mix)
http://www.gutrecords.com/tff-streams/closest_thing_brothers_in_rhythm.mp3

*Closest Thing To Heaven (Solasso Club Mix)
http://www.gutrecords.com/tff-streams/closest_thing_salaso.mp3

Call Me Mellow
http://www.gutrecords.com/tff-streams/call_me_mellow.mp3

Who Killed Tangerine?
http://www.gutrecords.com/tff-streams/who_killed_tangerine.mp3

Secret World
http://www.gutrecords.com/tff-streams/secret_world.mp3

TEARS FOR FEARS - "CLOSEST THING TO HEAVEN" (CD SINGLE)
UK Release Date	Monday February 21, 2005
Record Label	Gut Records
Format	5-track CD
Track 1	Closest Thing To Heaven (UK Radio Mix) 3:22
Track 2	Brothers In Rhythm Group Therapy Mix (8:15)
Track 3	Solasso Club Mix (5:49)
Track 4	Brothers In Rhythm Group Therapy Dub (8:15)
Track 5	Solasso Dub (5:33)
Audio	Stereo
Total Running Time	31 minutes (approx)
Catalogue Number	CDGUT66
Barcode Number	5060087560373

Order the UK Edition single "Closest Thing To Heaven" from Amazon.co.uk

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Among the benefits of picking up the new Tears for Fears album--the band's first since 1989--maybe the least obvious is looking cool in front of friends. Flick it on over cocktails, say, and brows will furrow: Few would think to match the heaving, synth-heavy boys who lit up the '80s with "Head Over Heels" to this new material. Which is mostly a good thing. The vocals of lead singer Roland Orzabal, powered by some all-cylinders thing, still squash all traces of irony in their path, and there's a moodiness to the music, minus a lot of the old broodiness, that borders on the masterly. Yet the sound has changed completely. Old-school overproduction has fallen away in favor of real guitars, pounding pianos, and a melody-driven, Beatle-y sensibility. It's there on the title track and first single "Call Me Mellow," and only slightly eclipsed by something pleasantly Bacharach-ish on "Secret World." Everybody who loves a happy ending will find one here: Tears for Fears skirts the has-been trap impressively, translating years of experience into play-it-again, sophisticated modern pop worth paying attention to.
--Tammy La Gorce

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