June 8, 1985 –
The Tears for Fears song Everybody Wants to Rule the World became the group’s highest-charting single when it reached No. #1 on the Billboard Charts on this date.
“Everybody Wants To Rule The World” is a line from the 1980 Clash song Charlie Don’t Surf. Did Tears for Fears lift it? Joe Strummer of The Clash thought so. He recounted a story to Musician magazine about confronting Roland Orzabal in a restaurant, informing Orzabal that “you owe me a fiver.” Strummer said that Roland reached in his pocket and produced a five pound note, ostensibly as compensation for poaching the line for his hit title.
And amazingly, they appeared on The Late Show recently performing the song again nearly 40 years later.
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