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Everybody Loves a Happy Ending

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Recorded
  
2000–2003

Artist
  
Tears for Fears

Label
  
New Door Records

Length
  
54:35

Release date
  
14 September 2004

Genres
  
New wave, Pop rock

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Released
  
14 September 2004 (US) 7 March 2005 (UK/Europe)

Studio
  
Charlton's Garage, Sherman Oaks, California

Producer
  
Tears for Fears, Charlton Pettus

Everybody Loves a Happy Ending (2004)
  
Secret World Live in Paris (2006)

Similar
  
Tears for Fears albums, New wave albums

Everybody Loves a Happy Ending is the sixth studio album by British pop rock/new wave band Tears for Fears, released on 14 September 2004 in the US, and 7 March 2005 in the UK and Europe. It was released some nine years after the previous Tears for Fears studio album, Raoul and the Kings of Spain, and was the first album featuring both original bandmembers Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith together since 1989's The Seeds of Love.

Contents

Work on the album began in 2000, after Smith and Orzabal ended their longstanding feud. The album was originally due for release in 2003 on the Arista label, but personnel changes in the label's management (namely the departure of L.A. Reid who had signed the duo) led to the band breaking ties with the label before any music was released. The album eventually surfaced in the US in 2004 when it was released on the New Door label (a subsidiary of Universal Music), and in the UK in 2005 on the British independent label Gut Records.

According to SoundScan figures, the album had sold 99,000 copies in the US by January 2008.

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Track listing

Note

  • "Ladybird" quotes the English nursery rhyme Ladybird Ladybird in its chorus.
  • Production

  • Producers: Tears for Fears, Charlton Pettus
  • Engineers: Steve Churchyard , Neil Dorfsman, Mark O'Donoughue, Charlton Pettus, Tom Schick
  • Mixing: Tim Palmer
  • Mastering: Stephen Marcussen
  • Programming: Jayce Murphy
  • Product manager: Michael Kachko; Project coordinator: Cindi Peters; Production coordination: Ute Friesleben; Assistants: Andy Gwynn, Pete Novak, Miles Wilson
  • Illustrations and logo design: Alan Aldridge; Photography: Zoren Gold; Additional Design: Ryan Rogers
  • Charts

    Singles

    Songs

    1Everybody Loves a Happy Ending4:22
    2Closest Thing to Heaven3:20
    3Call Me Mellow3:28

    References

    Everybody Loves a Happy Ending Wikipedia