Tears For Fears’ ‘Songs From The Big Chair’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

February 20, 2025 Andy Healy

On their second studio affair, Tears For Fears reveal themselves as being more than just synth-pop darlings and elevate their offering above the mid-80s din.

Tears For Fears’ ‘The Seeds Of Love’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

September 24, 2024 Andy Healy

Rather than rush back into the studio with ‘Songs From A Bigger Chair,’ Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal put in the work to flesh out a new and exciting musical horizon for them to explore.

Tears For Fears’ Debut Album ‘The Hurting’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

March 4, 2023 Andy Healy

Tears For Fears became unlikely synth-pop heroes with their inaugural effort, an album laden with songs recoiling with the unhappiness of childhood.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Debut Album ‘Read My Lips’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

With her debut solo affair, Ellis-Bextor made the dancefloor feel elegant and faintly surreal, a place where heartbreak could wear lipstick and emotional catastrophe could arrive with a four-on-the-floor beat.

Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

Four decades later, ‘Graceland’ remains true to what it was from the start—a beautiful, tangled, genuinely collaborative album that changed what pop music could sound like.

The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

When listening to ‘Tattoo You,’ you would never know that it is this Frankenstein's monster of an album that was pieced together with songs that came from their most creatively fertile period.