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Helen Fisher and her sister at Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, in 1981. Photograph: Private photo Snapshot: Mean and moody on holiday My sister and me , mean and moody under the magnificent ramparts of Bamburgh castle in the last week of July 1981.

Curt Smith briefly added another occupation to his Twitter bio. The co-founder of the massively popular '80s pop group Tears for Fears and solo artist had become a "singer, songwriter, liberal puke." "It's amusing," he says in his soft British accent, recalling an incident a few weeks prior to our interview, when a Twitter follower flung the ...

A track made originally by the British band Tears for Fears, it hit No. 3 on the U.K. Singles Chart in November 1982.

The weekend went by way too quickly, but for those who want to keep up their night-on-the-town streak, Curt Smith, who you might recognize from a little band called Tears for Fears, is playing Hotel Cafe tonight.

Beginning with a fast snare beat on the drums, the song features one of the most well known guitar riffs of all time.

Louisiana blues/spirit-man plays Sunday at Rhythm & Roots. Be there! Published on 9/3/2009 Interactive Profile Rick Koster has covered music, books and dining for The Day , and is a regular columnist.

Our friends at GOOD Magazine have posted a neat item here -- Curt Smith , best known as co-founder of the band Tears for Fears , but now an independent, solo artist with a new set of fans, talks about the "musical value of sharing." Great stuff.

Our friends at GOOD Magazine have posted a neat item here -- Curt Smith , best known as co-founder of the band Tears for Fears , but now an independent, solo artist with a new set of fans, talks about the "musical value of sharing." Great stuff.

With a familiar banjo/synth rift leading into an engaging "welcome to your liiffe,there's no turning baaa...ack" it felt like 1985 again as Tears For Fears opened their show with perhaps their biggest hit "Everybody Wants To Rule The World." "This is the last show of a mammoth eight -show tour," proclaimed Roland Orzabel a couple songs into Tears ...

Death-metal band Cannibal Corpse has never been subtle. From 1990's Eaten Back to Life through through this year's Evisceration Plague , the Tampa-via-Buffalo quintet has been hacking apart eardrums musically and lyrically.

"EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD...SHOUT...HEAD OVER HEELS..." BACK IN THE 80'S - THE BAND "TEARS FOR FEARS" HAD A STRING OF BIG HITS... TONIGHT- THEY'RE BACK TOGETHER IN THE VALLEY... W2 25 ]] C2.5 G 0 [[ ANIMATION YETTA GIBSON IS LIVE WITH THE STORY.

Tears for Fears Tears For Fears British pop band Tears For Fears has sold more than 22... Sound: Ambitious synth pop.

For the first time ever, Tears for Fears will be gracing Sonoma County with a performance at The Wells Fargo Center for the Arts.

I t was the end of the 1980s and Curt Smith from Tears for Fears had it all: a string of hit singles, his face all over MTV and hundreds of thousands of fans.

The thing to love about Coconut Coolouts is that they're always playing. Not as in they're always playing their instruments; it just feels as though they are always at play , always having fun.

For some of us, the mid 1980s was an extremely dismal period in pop music. The gob-smacking madness of early punk, which had given us five brilliant years of rock and revolution, reached its zenith with The Clash's Combat Rock , and the years that followed would, by their very banality, forever cement '77-'82 as one of the most fertile eras in ...

Actor Al Molinaro is 90. Comedian Jack Carter is 86. Actress Michele Lee is 67. Guitarist Jeff Beck is 65.

Being the daughter of a minister, it's no surprise that Oleta Adams' roots are in gospel, as she often performed in her father's church.

Currently on a "farewell" tour celebrating 25 years in the music business, Simply Red will soon split up.

Oleta Adams looks like a million bucks and she wants you to feel the same way. Even when she's not singing gospel, her first musical home, she seeks to lift the spirit, infusing her performances with affirmations, advice, and affection for her audience.