Once darlings of the 80s pop scene but always powered by prog, Tears For Fears made a bold return with 2022’s The Tipping Point, their first new album in nearly 18 years. At the time of its launch, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith told Prog about the ambition that kept them going – and how their difficult reunion led to a rediscovery.
Curt Smith has a framed picture of King Crimson on his bathroom wall. It’s not just any old photo. The occasion is April 30, 1981, in the confines of Bath’s Moles club, where a fresh iteration of the band – tentatively called Discipline – is returning to the stage for the first time in seven years. Bassist Tony Levin dominates the foreground, while the 19-year-old Smith stands directly in front of him, utterly transfixed.
