Roland Orzabal

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The Megyn Kelly Show · DSA Candidate Slams "Proximity To Whiteness," and Tennis Star SUPPORTS Women, with Matt Taibbi, Plus Roland Orzabal of "Tears For Fears" | Ep. 1373 · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

You know, it's so loud at the end of the show.

We have never managed to fit it in

at the beginning or middle, you know?

Well, there was a lot of, you know, war talk about it.

at that time, Russia and America and all nuclear weapons proliferation, mutually assured destruction.

And the original title was Everybody Wants to Go to War, which I struggled with very much.

And that was one of the reasons why I didn't like the song.

But our producer, Chris Hughes, had us play it every day.

And it came together very naturally.

And it was a eureka moment for me where I changed the title to Everybody Wants to Rule the World.

Then all of a sudden, we were off.

I didn't really notice, to be honest with you.

I mean, hysteria is something that you can manufacture by the way you behave to an audience.

So I'll give an example.

In 1985, we were doing a TV programme, and there were a lot of screaming girls outside.

And I thought it was a bit strange, and so I went out the door and spoke to them all, and then the hysteria died, you know?

Just by showing them you're a normal person, exactly.

Well, as you read in the book, I...

We started Tears for Fears to get rich, get famous, and get therapy.

We were inspired by the writings of Baba Yano, and all I cared about was doing this thing called primal therapy to go into myself, understand myself, and try and exorcise some of the demons from my childhood.

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