Tears for Fears, named after a phrase found in Arthur Janov's book Prisoners of Pain, is a British
pop/
rock outfit formed in 1981 in Bath, England, by
Roland Orzabal and
Curt Smith, two school friends and ex-members of
Graduate. Initially associated with
new wave and the
new romantic movements, the duo's earliest work (through 1983's The Hurting) was explicitly based around the confusion and angst of adolescence.