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The song "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears was originally going to be called "Everybody Wants to go to War" and it was a commentary on the Cold War.
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Unlike Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher was opposed to German reunification, fearing it would pose risks to European security. Shortly before it fell, she pleaded with Michael Gorbachev to not tear down the Berlin Wall.
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The line towards the end of Mad World by Tears for Fears is not "enlarge your world", but "Halargian world", referring to a fictional alien planet.
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In the 1990s, The Walt Disney Company attempted to buy Knott's Berry Farm and covert it into Disney's America, a failed theme park concept in Virginia. The owners, Walter Knott's children, refused in fear that Disney would tear down everything their father had created.
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The Clash's Joe Strummer thought Tears For Fears' Roland Orzabal got the title of the hit Everybody Wants To Rule The World from The Clash's Charlie Don't Surf. Strummer confronted Orzabal and said he owed him for plagiarism. Orzabal obliged, taking a five pound note out of his pocket
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Tears for Fears: Everybody wants to Rule the World was inspired by Simple Minds: Waterfront (a mate of mine is in that video..somewhere)
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Mad World is originaly from Tears for Fears and not from Gary Jules
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Mad World by Gary Jules (all around me are familiar faces) is a cover, and the original song is by Tears For Fears.
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Rutger Hauer playing the replicant Batty in "Blade Runner" significantly altered the final "tears in the Rain soliloquy fearing the scripted lines were too hi-tech. So he "put a knife in it" the night before filming, without director Ridley Scott's knowledge
