Originally posted by miam@10 May 2004, 00:01
@moontear:die texte sind ja teilweise sehr spirituell und könnten dies vermuten lassen.
muss aber gestehen, dass ich deine frage zunächst leider nicht beantworten konnte. habe aber mal im tff-forum nachgefragt. ;)
es soll stimmen und könnte gerüchteweise auch mit ein trennungsgrund gewesen sein, weil roland wohl mitunter nicht arbeiten wollte, wenn die sterne nicht günstig für ihn standen (kann ich mir das vielleicht auch mal erlauben?).
falls ich noch mehr infos bekomme, poste ich entsprechend (oder du surfst mal im forum vorbei :D)
good night!
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No more Tears as pop duo find harmony with revived Christmas hit
By Chris Gray
23 December 2003
They refused to speak to each other for 10 years after astrological differences drove them apart, but with a haunting cover of their song at number one, Tears for Fears are about to re-emerge from obscurity.
Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith are preparing to release a new album and embark on a world tour next year, 13 years after one of the Eighties' most successful bands fell apart amid bitter recriminations.
The duo's friends are adamant their decision to re-form was taken long before Gary Jules' version of Tears for Fears' „Mad World“ became this year's Christmas number one. They say the two musicians resolved their differences and started writing together again in 2001, when the film Donnie Darko was released with Jules's version of „Mad World“ playing over the closing credits.
But whatever the timescale of the reunion, the unexpected reinvention of a 1982 electro-pop hit as a mournful Christmas number one has given a Tear for Fears reunion a momentum missing from other Eighties revivals.
Orzabal and Smith were best friends when they formed the group as teenagers in Bath, but by 1990 they were travelling to gigs in different limousines and Orzabal's interest in astrology had driven Smith to distraction.
In the meantime, they had sold 15 million albums, and had 13 top 40 hits, including „Mad World“, „Change“, „Shout“, and „Everybody Wants to Rule the World“.
But Orzabal became convinced his friend had „lost his appetite“ for the band, while Smith says he could take no more of his partner's obsession with astrology after he was warned not to join a motor race because Orzabal had foreseen his death. He also found it difficult to understand why Orzabal spent six weeks recording one drum programme.
The split was one of the most acrimonious in pop history, and while Orzabal continued to use the Tears for Fears name, they refused to see or speak to one another. Orzabal remained in Bath and married. The two albums released by his solo version of Tears for Fears underperformed, and he finally laid the name to rest with a South American tour in 1996. Since then, he has released one album, entitled Tomcats Screaming Outside.
Smith moved to America, settling first in New York, where he concentrated on a solo project, Mayfield. He and his wife then moved to Los Angeles, where they bought and renovated a bungalow.
The thaw in relations came when Orzabal and Smith agreed to meet in 2001, and, according to their management, discovered that time had ended the bitterness. They signed to Arista Records, played live again for the first time at an event for Andre Agassi's children's charity in October, and are due to release the new album, Everyone Loves a Happy Ending, next year.
Speaking from his home in Los Angeles where he is staying with his family while working on the album, Roland Orzabal said: „When Curt and I split, I carried on with the Tears for Fears name, producing two albums and performing two world tours. At the end of the second tour, I felt that I had done enough and went into semi-retirement. I wanted to get away from all the subject matters that had obsessed me since adolescence. I'd been writing about things like family and neuroses all deep and meaningful stuff. At that stage, I wanted to move away from being an artist for a while so I focused more on producing stuff rather than writing it.
„Meanwhile, Curt and I always had various shared business interests, which we couldn't get rid of and for which various papers needed both our signatures. The lines of communication were maintained but they were largely used for business. We got back in touch with each other after I did something for him which I didn't really have to and he just wrote to me to say thanks. Simple as that.
„Before this, it seemed that whenever I went round to record companies, they would always ask me, 'Is there any way we could get Curt onto this?' At the end of the day, it's market forces. Like our latest album's title says, everyone likes a happy ending.“
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