Tears For Fears - AT THE VAULTS CD

Formed in 1981 by Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal in Bath, England, Tears For Fears achieved mainstream success in the U.K. with their debut album The Hurting (1983), which featured the three hit singles ‘Mad World’, ‘Change’, and ‘Pale Shelter’. Whilst the album gained some popularity globally, it wasn’t until the band’s follow-up album Songs From The Big Chair (1985) that Tears For Fears hit global stardom. The album peaked at number two in the U.K. and at number one in the U.S. and would go on to achieve 5-times platinum status in the U.S. with over 5 million sales. Tears For Fears’ global success led to them becoming synonymous with the ‘Second British Invasion’, characterised by the synth-pop stylings of U.K. acts that were beginning to dominate global charts in the early 80s. Singles ‘Shout’ and ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’ enjoyed enormous success worldwide, bolstered by the rising popularity of M.T.V. and the increasing prevalence of the music video (an already developed concept in British music programming).Despite rising personal tensions between Smith and Orzabal, the band released The Seeds of Love in 1989 for a reported recording cost of over £1 million. Bigger in scope than their prior releases and drawing on a greater pool of influences that included Jazz and Soul, The Seeds Of Love was another critical and commercial success for Tears For Fears. A worldwide tour followed in 1990, with the group taking pianist/vocalist Oleta Adams with them in a bid to highlight her talents after Orzabal and Smith discovered her playing in a hotel lounge in 1985. The tour began on the 6th of January in Dublin and encompassed South America, North America and Europe before drawing to a close at an all-day event at Knebworth, England, on the 30th of June.