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Tears For Fears and Queen

Johnnie Walker revisits classic albums. 6/6. Two albums from the time of MTV and Live Aid - Tears for Fears' Songs From The Big Chair and Queen's A Kind of Magic.

Johnnie and David enjoy two classic albums from the era of MTV and Live Aid - Queen's A Kind Of Magic from 1986 and Songs From The Big Chair from Tears For Fears in 1985.

Queen were asked to supply songs for Duran Duran video director Russell Mulcahy's film Highlander (starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery) and these (including the title track and Brian May's Who Wants To Live Forever) feature on the album alongside One Vision, inspired by Martin Luther King and the optimism of Live Aid. David Hepworth, who was part of the 91热爆 presentation team on the day at Wembley, talks about Queen stealing the show and changing the appeal of stadium rock forever.

Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith met as teenagers in Bath and released their first recordings (as part of the band Graduate) in 1980. Four years later, as Tears For Fears, they recorded large parts of their follow up to The Hurting in the same city, at the home studio of their keyboard player (and co-writer of Shout) Ian Stanley. Songs From The Big Chair became part of the second British invasion of the American pop charts in the mid eighties, selling more than five million copies there, with success spreading across Europe and the rest of the world.

57 minutes

Last on

Wed 7 Sep 2016 22:00

Music Played

  • Queen

    A Kind Of Magic

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.
  • Queen

    One Vision (album version)

    • A Kind of Magic.
    • EMI.
    • 001.
  • Queen

    Friends Will Be Friends

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.
  • Queen

    Who Wants to Live Forever (album version)

    • A Kind of Magic.
    • EMI.
    • 006.
  • Queen

    Pain Is So Close to Pleasure

    • A Kind of Magic.
    • EMI.
    • 004.
  • Tears for Fears

    Everybody Wants To Rule The World

    • Rule The World: The Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 4.
  • Tears for Fears

    Shout

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Mercury.
  • Tears for Fears

    I Believe

    • Songs From The Big Chair.
    • Mercury.
    • 5.
  • Tears for Fears

    Head Over Heels / Broken (live)

    • Songs From The Big Chair.
    • Mercury.
    • 7.

Broadcast

  • Wed 7 Sep 2016 22:00