“It was originally called Everybody Wants To Go To War, which I knew didn’t work. When you’re a songwriter who doesn’t like the lyric, the song dies”: How Tears For Fears created an ’80s mega-hit

Tears For Fears in 1985.

When it comes to assessing great British artists of the 1980s, Tears For Fears stand out as a band that resolutely carved their own path, exuding a depth and maturity of songwriting that set them apart from their peers.

The Bath-based band formed by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith achieved their first taste of success in March 1983 with debut album The Hurting, a work whose dark themes focused on child abuse, psychological trauma and depression.