Tears for Fears “Head Over Heels” 1985. 10″ single, limited edition (UK release). The fourth single released from their LP Songs from the Big Chair and, like the other singles, a huge synthpop hit. “Head Over Heels” went to #3 in the US and to #12 in the UK. Like the singles “Shout” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” (both #1’s in the US), the video for “Head Over Heels” was on MTV constantly the summer of ’85 (it was released in June). I was glued to MTV around that time so I think I must have seen it a million times – I can actually see most of it in my head (I’ll pull it up on YouTube in a minute but I haven’t actually seen it in probably 30+ years). From Wiki: “A lighthearted video in comparison to the band’s other promos, it is centred on Roland Orzabal’s attempts to get the attention of a librarian (Joan Densmore), while a variety of characters (many played by the rest of the band), including a chimpanzee wearing a Red Sox jersey, engage in shenanigans in the library. The final scene shows Orzabal and the librarian as an older married couple.” You can probably see it in your mind now, too.

The b-side on this 10″ is “When in Love with a Blind Man” – it’s a string heavy brief atmospheric ballad with “a synthesized shakuhachi flute, a popular musical motif for pop music in the 1980s” (that and saxophone which thankfully is NOT on this track). It’s really short and it’s fine but definitely b-side material; pre-dating the Songs from the Big Chair album.