A song by the British band, Tears for Fears, it was written by Roland Orzabal and sung by the bassist Curt Smith. It was the band’s third single release and their first chart hit, reaching number three on the UK Singles Chart in November 1982. The song also became Tears for Fears’ first international hit, reaching the Top 40 in numerous countries in 1982 and 1983.
The song was then released again two decades later and enjoyed a new surge in popularity, when it was covered in a much slower, minimalist style by the composers Michael Andrews and Gary Jules using only a set of piano chords and a cello for the movie Donny Darko in 2001.
It was also a hit again in 2006 when used for the video game Gears of War. This version reached number one in the UK in December 2003, was at the top of the charts over the Christmas period and was again an international hit.
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world ... mad world
Enlarging your world
Mad world
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The 1970s is a decade that began on the 1st January 1970 and ended on December 31st 1979. Progressive social values that began to emerge in the 1960s, such as an increased political awareness and the economic liberty of women, continued to grow. The hippie culture, which involved opposition to the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons, advocating World Peace, and hostility to government and big business that started in the mid-1960s had started to wan by the early 1970s and faded by the middle of the decade.
The 1970s was a decade that saw the rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, with many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Margaret Thatcher who became the first woman Prime Minister in the United Kingdom in 1979 for the Conservative Party.
Once in power, she became synonymous for reducing government spending, weakening the power held by the trade unions and promoting economic and trade liberalization.
The 1970s saw the first face lifts being carried out, the first email being transmitted in 1971, the first floppy disc being invented by IBM and becoming commercially available in 1971, people could purchase VCRs and microwave ovens during the 1970s and the first cell phone call was transmitted in April 1973 by Motorola.
Smaller, more fuel-efficient cars were introduced due to the era being one of increased fuel prices, rising insurance rates, safety concerns and emission controls.
In music, the early 1970s saw the rise of many diverse forms of popular and rock musical styles, including jazz, southern, folk and soft rock with artists such as The Carpenters, Carole King and James Taylor being prominent during the decade. R&B also rose in popularity through the works of artists such as The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder and The Temptations.
The mid-1970s saw the rise of disco music which dominated the charts during the latter half of the decade with bands like ABBA, the Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Village People, and Boney M being the front-runners. In contrast to this, rock bands became more hard-edged with artists such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zepplin.
Other bands and artist popular during the seventies were those such as Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues, The Who, Queen, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Blondie the Sex Pistols, and the Clash, amongst others. A number of popular rock starts also lost their lives in the early 1970s, with Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison all losing their lives at the age of 27. Elvis Presley and Bing Crosby also both passed away within eight weeks of each other in 1977. Crosby’s record “White Christmas” remains as the best-selling single of all time, confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records.
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Beginning on January 1st 1960 and ending on December 31st 1969, the era that was the 1960's is often known just as “The Sixties”, denoting an era when cultural and political trends took precedence. Seen as the “cultural decade”, the time frame of “The Sixties” is slightly different – beginning around 1963 and ending in approximately 1974.
The decade is known as one of great excess and flamboyance in all manner of areas – music, fashion, radical political change and the fall or relaxation of some of the social taboos, especially relating to racism and sexism, with the 1960's being known as the decade of the sexual revolution.
Numerous assassinations happened in the 1960's, most notably those of John F. Kennedy in November 1963, Malcolm X in February 1965, Martin Luther King in April 1968 and Robert F. Kennedy in June of 1968.
Numerous movements sprung up – the anti-war movement opposing the US involvement in the Vietnam War, the emergence of the Black Power Movement and the Hispanic and Chicano Movement which fought to end racial discrimination.
With a second wave of feminism rising to prominence in the 1960's, along with the Gay rights movement, the decade became known for having the Summer of Love in San Francisco in 1967 and the Woodstock Festival in upstate New York in 1967.
Psychedelic drugs such as LSD became popular with this psychedelic movement having its influence across music, films and art with many prominent musicians dying of drug overdoses during those ten years. There was also a growing interest in Eastern religions and philosophy, with communes being formed that varied from supporting free love to religious puritanism.
Music in 1960's entered an era of “all hits” as numerous artists released recordings and radio stations tended to play only the most popular of the records that were made.
Motown Records was formed in the 1960's, The Beatles arrived in America in 1964 starting the invasion of British bands to the US and then worldwide. The decade became synonymous with artists such as The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, the Byrds, Otis Redding, the Bee Gees, The Who and Simon and Garfunkel, amongst others.
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Written by the American composer and songwriter, Cole Porter (June 1891- October 1964) who, despite being classically trained was drawn towards musical theatre and by the 1930s was one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage, “I get a Kick out of You” was originally featured in the Broadway musical ‘Anything Goes’ and the 1936 movie of the same name starring Bing Crosby and Ethel Merman.
The song was originally sung by the star of the movie, Ethel Merman, but has been covered by numerous performers over the decades such as Frank Sinatra, Billie Holliday, Peggy Lee, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Marlene Dietrich, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Dolly Parton, Shirley Bassey, Rod Stewart, Bryan Ferry, and more recently Jamie Cullum, amongst others.
My story is much too sad to be told,
But practically everything
leaves me totally cold.
The only exception i know is the case,
When I'm out on a quiet spree,
Fighting vainly the old ennui
and I suddenly turn and see,
your fabulous face.
I get no kick from Champagne
Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all
So tell me why should it be true
that I get a kick
out of you
Some get a kick from cocaine
I'm sure that if I took even one sniff
that would bore me terrifically too
yet
I get a kick out of you
I get a kick every time
I see you standing there before me
I get a kick though it’s clear to me you obviously don't
adore me
I get no kick in a plane
Flying too high
with some guy in the sky is my idea of nothing to do
Yet I get a kick
Out of you
Clapton wrote this in 1976 while waiting for his girlfriend (and future wife) Pattie to get ready for a night out. They were going to a Buddy Holly tribute that Paul McCartney put together, and Clapton was in the familiar position of waiting while she tried on clothes.
It's late in the evening; she's wondering what clothes to wear.
She puts on her make-up and brushes her long blonde hair.
And then she asks me, "Do I look all right?"
And I say, "Yes, you look wonderful tonight."
We go to a party and everyone turns to see
This beautiful lady that's walking around with me.
And then she asks me, "Do you feel all right?"
And I say, "Yes, I feel wonderful tonight."
I feel wonderful because I see
The love light in your eyes.
And the wonder of it all
Is that you just don't realize how much I love you.
It's time to go home now and I've got an aching head,
So I give her the car keys and she helps me to bed.
And then I tell her, as I turn out the light, I say,
"My darling, you were wonderful tonight. Oh my darling, you were wonderful tonight."
