The Darkness at number 2.??? What is wrong with the world. Talented band with musical ability or chubby bald Yank with flat cap and song that was done better by a UK artist 15 years ago. Typical of the British public. Well it will all be different after the revolution.!!
“Mad World was Tears For Fears’ first hit, bringing them international success when it reached number three in 1982. The duo went on to have hits with Shout and Everybody Wants to Rule the World before splitting acrimoniously in 1991. They recently played together again and are now recording an album, due to be released in the spring.
Roland Orzabal, who wrote the song, said yesterday the cover version of the group’s best-selling single had revealed its true beauty.
“It was a shock for me when I first heard it. It has a phenomenal atmosphere. When you write a song, you have an idea of how it should sound and you hope to bring out its true emotion.”
Orzabal wrote the song when he was 19 while staring out of the window of his flat in Bath, Somerset. “I was anti-establishment, anti-authority, I believed the world needed changing and was thinking to myself: ‘If only we could just get it right’.”"