Album: Songs From The Big Chair
Video: From DailyMotion.
This is the third and final Tears For Fears video on the countdown, topping off the best year of their career. Three videos placing in the top third of the countdown, not too shabby.
A fitting anthem for the Cold War era, "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" warns of the consequences of a mad quest for power. It has Big Brother-ish overtones, very appropriate for the time.
Amazingly, "EWTRTW" nearly didn’t make it on the album. It was the final song added and was recorded in only three days. It turned out to be the band's first number one song on the Billboard Hot 100, holding that position for two weeks. Oddly, the band never had a #1 hit in their home country, the U.K.
In the video, Curt Smith drives an antique sports car around the Southern California desert. Many interesting things are featured in the video, including life-sized dinosaurs, hawks, airplanes, dune buggies, a little boy in a cowboy outfit, and two dapper gentlemen dancing next to old style gas pumps.
One of the cities featured is Cabazon, which features a great grocery store called Hadley Fruit Orchards. Every time I drive through that area, I like to stop in and buy some dried fruits and nuts. Check it out.
Hadley date shakes!! Yum. Ev-ery-bo-dy-wants-to-drink-a-shake.
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