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The Love Song and Curt Smith

Tears For Fears' Curt Smith chooses the Tracks Of My Years all this week, plus there's more PopMaster. Ken also has his Record and Album Of The Week, and The Love Song at 1015.

Curt Smith of Tears For Fears chooses his Tracks Of My Years all this week, plus there's more PopMaster. Ken also has his Record and Album Of The Week, and The Love Song is at 1015.

Curt and childhood friend Roland Orzabal founded Tears For Fears from the ashes of their earlier group Graduate in 1981, and their debut album, 1983's The Hurting, reached no.1 in the UK and produced three international hit singles – "Mad World", "Change", and "Pale Shelter".

They enjoyed further success before an acrimonious split in 1991, and Curt went on to collaborate with several other artists and producers before Tears For Fears reformed in 2004.

However it's only now Curt and Roland have got round to finally making the follow-up album 'The Tipping Point', which will be released early in 2022. The title track has already been heavily playlisted on Radio 2, and the album is described as "one that vividly recalls the depth and emotional force of the group’s earliest triumphs."

Ken's got another round of the legendary PopMaster music quiz and your dedications with today's love song. There's also the record and album of the week.

If you want to contact the show, just email - ken.bruce@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 5 Jan 2022 09:30

Music Played

  • John Parr

    St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
  • Pete Tong, Riton & Vula

    Love Can't Turn Around (feat. Jules Buckley)

    • Pete Tong + Friends: Ibiza Classics.
    • Ministry Of Sound.
  • George Michael

    Amazing

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.
  • Santana

    The Game Of Love (feat. Michelle Branch)

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.
  • DeBarge

    Rhythm Of The Night

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.
  • Record of the Week

    • Yola

      Dancing Away In Tears

      • Stand For Myself.
      • Easy Eye Sound.
      • 2.
  • The Corrs

    Old Town

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Kid Creole and the Coconuts

    Annie I'm Not Your Daddy

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
  • Joel Corry

    I Wish (feat. Mabel)

    • About Last Night....
    • Polydor.
  • America

    The Border

    • Encore! More Greatest Hits.
    • Rhino.
  • Mariah Carey

    Hero

    • Mariah #1's - The Best Of Mariah Care.
    • Columbia.
  • Morgan Wade

    Wilder Days

    • Reckless.
    • Ladylike Records.
  • Fleetwood Mac

    Isn't It Midnight

    • Tango In The Night.
    • Warner Bros.
  • Boston

    More Than A Feeling

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.
  • Westlife

    My Hero

    • Wild Dreams.
    • Warner Music.
  • The Killers

    When You Were Young

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
  • Justin Bieber

    Ghost

    • Justice.
    • EMI.
  • Jermaine Jackson & Whitney Houston

    Take Good Care Of My Heart

    • Whitney Houston.
    • Arista.
  • John Denver

    Calypso

    • Greatest Hits Vol 2.
    • RCA.
  • Album of the Week

    • Rachel Zegler & Ansel Elgort

      Tonight

      • West Side Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
      • Walt Disney Records.
      • 9.
  • Andrew Gold

    Thank You For Being A Friend

    • Jukebox 70's Hits -I Got The Music In.
    • Old Gold.
  • Rag’n’Bone Man

    Fall In Love Again

    • Life By Misadventure.
    • Best Laid Plans/Columbia.
  • Tracks of My Years

    • Gary Numan

      Are Friends Electric?

      Performer: Tubeway Army.
      • Our Friends Electric (Various Artists).
      • Telstar.
    • Kate Bush

      Wuthering Heights

      • Remastered Part I.
      • Fish People.
  • Taylor Swift

    Message In A Bottle (Taylor's Version)

    • Red (Taylor's Version).
    • Virgin EMI Records.
  • Empire of the Sun

    We Are The People

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Wed 5 Jan 2022 09:30