For anybody who remembered the British invasion of the American charts of 1964, the Billboard bestsellers of 21 years later would have had distinct echoes. For numerous UK artists, from Wham! to Phil Collins and Dire Straits to Easy Minds, it was actually an annus mirabilis. Then there was Tears For Fears.
The duo of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith had been an enormous a part of that second British invasion. When TFF entered the Sizzling 100 in March that 12 months with “Everybody Wants To Rule The World,” all of their preliminary UK success to that time had yielded only one US singles chart look, and that at a No.73 peak, with “Change” in 1983. The album The Hurting reached the very same place.
Now, issues had been going to be completely different. Fuelled by the parallel rise of the father or mother album Songs From The Massive Chair, “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” made swift progress up the American singles record, even after it peaked at No.2 again in Britain in April. Written by Orzabal with Ian Stanley and producer Chris Hughes, the track’s upbeat flavour captured the creativeness of US radio and MTV programmers and followers alike.
British acts maintain sway
On June 8, 1985, the Tears For Fears single took over from Wham!’s “Everything She Wants” to start a two-week reign on the Sizzling 100. Wham!’s single had itself changed Easy Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” on the prime, as British acts held sway for a five-week stretch. Simply 5 weeks later, Songs From The Massive Chair was topping the album chart, for the primary of 5 non-consecutive weeks.
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Whilst “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” dominated America, TFF’s subsequent single was coming down the monitor at prime velocity. “Shout” entered the Sizzling 100 on June 15 and, by early August, gave the duo one more No.1. It was all a part of the summer time wherein America merely couldn’t get sufficient British pop and rock.
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