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This week in 1987, the Tears For Fears single “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” re-entered the UK Singles Chart at #73 (February 21)

Originally released in 1985, the song that was a "last-minute" addition during recording sessions for their US #1 “Songs from the Big Chair” LP, was written by Roland Orzabal, TFF keyboard player Ian Stanley and the album’s producer Chris Hughes.

Because "Shout" was the group's first single in the rest of the world, Tears For Fears thought it should also be their first release in the US, but the record label insisted "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" was better suited for their American debut. 

“Which is interesting in retrospect," Curt Smith later reflected, “because it was one of those times when the record company was right and we were wrong, because for America, yes, it was a better first single."

The big, rich synth song with the big, rich vocals spent two weeks in the top spot in the US, and was also #1 in New Zealand and Canada, and peaked at #2 in the UK, Australia and the Netherlands, #3 in Belgium, #11 in Germany, #13 in Switzerland, #14 in South Africa, #18 in France, and #19 in Austria.

In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked the song at #319 in their updated list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

According to Clash frontman Joe Strummer in a 1988 interview, he was in a restaurant, saw Orzabal, and told him "you owe me a fiver", referencing the title of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" being an exact lift of the first line of the middle eight in the Clash song “Charlie Don't Surf", from “Sandinista!”

According to Strummer, Orzabal simply reached into his pocket and gave him a five pound note…

Tears for Fears commented in a 2017 interview with Yahoo! Music that the song's Cold War themes were still "just as poignant" as they were when they first wrote it…

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