Monday Music.."Everybody wants to rule the World" Tears for Fears

As y'all have gathered from my prior posting, I went camping this past weekend, I had posted a couple of pics on the blog.  I wanted to post more but my phone croaked.  I have an old Samsung SIII galaxy, a good phone, the best "smart" phone I have had, but it is showing its age and being dropped a lot doesn't help.  The phone wouldn't accept any of the chargers I had scrounged up...Oh well.  I did get some more pics but I will post them in a day or so.  My brother from another mother did give me a really nice present....

He said it was to forestall the incessant whining about coffee.....All I can say....is   "Yep"

    I decided to roll with Tears for Fears on the Monday Music.  I remembered this song got a lot of airplay on the MTV.  I really liked the sing and the resulting beat.  I have the album "Songs from the Big Chair" it is one of my first CD's that I bought when I got my CD player from the PX in Robinson Barracks in 1987.  I immediately burned a copy for my cassette player in my Mustang that I had.  Even now I can listen to the song and album from cover to cover.

    
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is a song by the English band Tears for Fears. Originally released in the UK on 22 March 1985 it was the band's ninth single release in the United Kingdom (the third from their second LP: Songs from the Big Chair) and seventh UK Top 30 chart hit, peaking at number two in April 1985. In the US, it was the lead single from the album and gave the band their first Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit on 8 June 1985, remaining there for two weeks. It also reached number one on both the Hot Dance Club Play and Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales charts in the US. The song has since become the pinnacle of Tears for Fears' chart success.
In 1986, the song won "Best Single" at the Brit Awards.  "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" was somewhat of an afterthought during the recording of Songs from the Big Chair. According to Roland Orzabal, he initially regarded the song as a lightweight that would not fit with the rest of the album. Originally, the lyrics of the song were "everybody wants to go to war", which Orzabal felt was lacklustre. It was producer Chris Hughes who convinced him to try recording it, in a calculated effort to gain American chart success.
    In 1986, the song won "Best Single" at the Brit Awards. Band member and co-writer Roland Orzabal argued that the song deserved to win the Ivor Novello International Hit of the Year award, claiming that the winner—"19" by Paul Hardcastle—was not an actual song, but only a "dialogue collage"

The promotional clip for "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", filmed in early 1985, was the third Tears for Fears clip directed by famed music video producer Nigel Dick. It features Curt Smith driving an antique Austin-Healey 3000 sports car around various Southern California locales, including Salton Sea and Cabazon. Interspersed with these clips are shots of the full band performing the song in a London studio. Along with the clip for "Shout", the "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" video had a big hand in helping establish Tears for Fears in America, due to its heavy amount of play on the music video channel MTV.