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"Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
Single by Tears for Fears
from the album Songs from the Big Chair
B-side
"Pharaohs"
Released
22 March 1985
Format
CD
7"
10"
12"
Genre
New wave
Length
4:11
Label
Phonogram (UK)
Mercury (US)
Vertigo (Canada)
Songwriter(s)
Roland Orzabal
Ian Stanley
Chris Hughes
Producer(s)
Chris Hughes
Tears for Fears singles chronology
"Shout"
(1984) "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
(1985) "Head over Heels"
(1985)
"Shout"
(1984) "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
(1985) "Head over Heels"
(1985)
Audio sample
file
help
Music video
"Everybody Wants To Rule The World" on YouTube
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is a song by English band Tears for Fears. Originally released in the UK on 22 March 1985[1][verification needed] it was the band's ninth single release in the United Kingdom and the third from their second LP Songs from the Big Chair. It was their seventh UK Top 30 chart hit, peaking at number two in April 1985, and thus becoming the group's highest-charting UK single. In the US, it was the lead single from the album and gave the band their first Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit on 8 June 1985, remaining there for two weeks. It also reached number one on both the Hot Dance Club Play and Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales charts in the US. The song has since become the pinnacle of Tears for Fears' chart success.
In 1986, the song won "Best Single" at the Brit Awards.
Contents
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1 Background and composition
2 Awards and accolades
3 B-side: "Pharaohs"
4 Music video
5 Formats and track listings
5.1 7" single
5.2 Double 7" pack
5.3 10" single
5.4 12" single
5.5 12" Urban Mix
6 Credits and personnel
6.1 Tears for Fears
6.2 Additional personnel
7 Charts and certifications
7.1 Weekly charts
7.2 Year-end charts
7.3 Certifications and sales
8 Everybody Wants to Run the World
8.1 Charts
9 Remixes
10 Lorde version
11 See also
12 References
13 External links
Background and composition[edit]
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" was somewhat of an afterthought during the recording of Songs from the Big Chair. According to Roland Orzabal, he initially regarded the song as a lightweight that would not fit with the rest of the album. Originally, the lyrics of the song were "everybody wants to go to war", which Orzabal felt was lacklustre.[2] It was producer Chris Hughes who convinced him to try recording it, in a calculated effort to gain American chart success.
It was written and recorded in two weeks and was the final track to be added to the Songs from the Big Chair album. The shuffle beat was alien to our normal way of doing things. It was jolly rather than square and rigid in the manner of 'Shout', but it continued the process of becoming more extrovert.
— Roland Orzabal
The concept is quite serious – it's about everybody wanting power, about warfare and the misery it causes.
— Curt Smith[3]
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is a new wave song[4][5] set in the key of D major with a 12
8 time signature and a tempo of 112 beats per minute.[6] The band have stated that the driving rhythm was influenced by Simple Minds "Waterfront", released in 1983.
As was the case with the three hit singles from Tears for Fears' debut LP The Hurting, the song featured bassist Curt Smith on lead vocals.
Awards and accolades[edit]
In 1986, the song won "Best Single" at the Brit Awards. Band member and co-writer Roland Orzabal argued that the song deserved to win the Ivor Novello International Hit of the Year award, claiming that the winner—"19" by Paul Hardcastle—was not an actual song, but only a "dialogue collage".[7]
In 2015, 30 years after its release, the song was honoured at the annual BMI Awards in London for achieving 6 million radio airplays.[8]
B-side: "Pharaohs"[edit]
"Pharaohs" is the B-side to the "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" single. It is a slower, largely instrumental variation of "Everybody Wants To Rule The World", featuring a recording of BBC Radio 4 announcer Brian Perkins reading the Shipping Forecast for the sea lanes around the United Kingdom (see below). The title of the song is a play on the name of the Faroe Islands ("Faroes"), one of the places referenced in the forecast. This is one of the few songs in the Tears for Fears catalogue on which founding member Curt Smith shares a writing credit. The song has since been included in the band's 1996 B-sides and rarities collection Saturnine Martial & Lunatic, as well as the remastered and deluxe edition reissues of Songs from the Big Chair. "Pharaohs" is also included on the Groove Armada compilation album Back to Mine.
No matter how horrifying the conditions may really be, the voice reading the shipping forecast is deliberately calm and relaxed. Recorded at the Wool Hall for the B-side of 'Everybody' in a calm and relaxed way.
— Chris Hughes
"Pharaohs" shipping forecast read by Brian Perkins (BBC Radio 4, c. 1984):
There are warnings of gales in Viking, Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Fisher, Dover, Wight, Portland, Plymouth, Finisterre, Sole, Lundy, Fastnet, Shannon, Rockall, Malin, Hebrides, Bailey, Fair Isle, Faroes and Southeast Iceland.
The general synopsis at one eight double-O: low just north of Viking, nine double-seven, moving steadily east-northeast.
Low 300 miles south of Iceland. Atlantic low forming, moving steadily northeast.
A ridge of high pressure has swayed between North and South Utsire. The area forecast for the next twenty-four hours. Viking, Forties, Cromarty, Forth.
Music video[edit]
The promotional clip for "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", filmed in early 1985, was the third Tears for Fears clip directed by music video producer Nigel Dick. It features Curt Smith driving an antique Austin-Healey 3000 sports car around numerous Southern California locales, including Salton Sea and Cabazon. Interspersed with these clips are shots of the full band performing the song in a London studio. Along with the clip for "Shout", the "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" video had a big hand in helping establish Tears for Fears in America, due to its heavy amount of play on the music video channel MTV.
Formats and track listings[edit]
The single was released on a wide variety of formats in the United Kingdom, including a standard 7", a 7" double pack, two separate 12" versions, and a 10" single.
7" single[edit]
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (4:11)
"Pharaohs" (3:42)
Double 7" pack[edit]
Disc one
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (4:11)
"Pharaohs" (3:42)
Disc two
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World [Urban Mix]" (6:06)
"Interview Excerpt" (7:30)
10" single[edit]
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (4:11)
"Pharaohs" (3:42)
12" single[edit]
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World [Extended Version]" (5:43)
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (4:11)
"Pharaohs" (3:42)
12" Urban Mix[edit]
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World [Urban Mix]" (6:06)
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World [Instrumental]" (4:26)
Credits and personnel[edit]
Tears for Fears[edit]
Roland Orzabal – guitar, keyboards, vocals
Curt Smith – bass guitar, lead vocals
Ian Stanley – keyboards, LinnDrum programming
Manny Elias – drums
Additional personnel[edit]
Neil Taylor – second guitar solo
Chris Hughes – producer, drums, MIDI programming
Dave Bascombe – engineer
Charts and certifications[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1985)
Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[9] 2
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[10] 19
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[11] 3
Canada (The Record)[12] 1
Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)[13] 1
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[14] 1
France (SNEP)[15] 18
Germany (Official German Charts)[16] 11
Ireland (IRMA)[17] 2
Italy (FIMI)[18] 11
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[19] 2
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[20] 2
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[21] 1
South Africa (Springbok Radio)[22] 14
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[23] 13
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[24] 2
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[25] 2
US Billboard Hot 100[25] 1
US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[25] 1
US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales[25] 1
US Billboard Top Rock Tracks[25] 2
US Cash Box[26] 1
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1985)
Rank
Australia (Kent Music Report)[27] 36
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[28] 31
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[29] 19
Italy (FIMI)[18] 86
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[30] 20
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[31] 31
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[32] 9
UK Singles (Official Single Chart)[33] 24
US Billboard Hot 100[34] 7
US Cash Box[35] 3
Certifications and sales[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Canada (Music Canada)[36]
Gold 50,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[37]
Gold 10,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[38]
Silver 250,000^
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
Everybody Wants to Run the World[edit]
"Everybody Wants to Run the World"
Single by Tears for Fears
Released
1986
Format
7"
12"
Genre
New wave
Length
4:30
Label
Phonogram
Mercury
Songwriter(s)
Roland Orzabal
Ian Stanley
Chris Hughes
Producer(s)
Tears for Fears
Tears for Fears singles chronology
"I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording)"
(1985) "Everybody Wants to Run the World"
(1986) "Mothers Talk"
(1986)
"I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording)"
(1985) "Everybody Wants to Run the World"
(1986) "Mothers Talk"
(US Remix)
(1986)
"Everybody Wants to Run the World" is a re-recording of the "Everybody Wants to Rule the World". The reworked single was released in 1986 to promote the Sport Aid campaign, a charitable event held to raise money for famine relief in Africa. It was a success in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's sixth top 5 hit, peaking at number 5 in June 1986.[39] The song also reached number 4 in Ireland.[40]
Charts[edit]
Chart (1986)
Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA)[40] 4
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[39] 5
Remixes[edit]
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"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" has seen relatively few remixes. Extended, instrumental, and "urban mix" versions were done by producer Chris Hughes for inclusion on the single's various 7" and 12" releases. The only other remix of note was one done by electronica act The Chosen Few, included on the 2004 reissue of the greatest hits compilation Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92). A version labelled as the 7" version is included on the 2006 remaster of Songs from the Big Chair, but is actually the album version.[citation needed]
Lorde version[edit]
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
Song by Lorde
from the album The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Released
2013
Length
2:35
Label
Republic
Mercury
Songwriter(s)
Roland Orzabal
Ian Stanley
Chris Hughes
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack track listing
12 tracks [show]
"Atlas"
"Silhouettes"
"Elastic Heart"
"Lean"
"We Remain"
"Devil May Cry"
"Who We Are"
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World
"Gale Song"
"Mirror"
"Capitol Letter"
"Shooting Arrows at the Sky"
New Zealand singer Lorde recorded a cover of the song for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack in addition to the Epix promo for the premiere of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.[41] The cover was produced by Peter Shurkin and Natalie Baartz with arrangement by Michael A. Levine and Lucas Cantor. It was later used in the cinematic trailer of Assassin's Creed Unity at E3 2014,[42] the "Rule the World" trailer celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the Creative Assembly's Total War video game series, promotional videos for the new network BBC First[43] and 2015 BBC TV series Banished, the 2014 ABC show How to Get Away with Murder, season 4 of Homeland, season 1 finale of The Royals, in Sky Sports F1's coverage of the 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and in the trailer for the 2014 film Dracula Untold.[44] Her cover appeared on the New Zealand Singles Chart at number 14.[45] It reached number 53 in Australia,[43] number 65 in the UK,[46] number 93 in France,[47] and number 27 on the US Hot Rock Songs.[48]
Chart (2013–2014)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[43] 53
France (SNEP)[47] 93
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[45] 14
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[46] 65
US Billboard Hot Rock Songs[48] 27
See also[edit]
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 1985
List of Cash Box Top 100 number-one singles of 1985
List of number-one dance singles of 1985 (U.S.)
List of number-one singles of 1985 (Canada)
List of number-one singles from the 1980s (New Zealand)
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External links[edit]
Review at AllMusic
Curt Smith discusses Everybody Wants To Rule The World – RetroRewind interview
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
Lyrics of the rewritten song for the Sports Aid campaign at MetroLyrics
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Perfect is the enemy of good
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This natural diamond crystal contains flaws and the flawless diamonds called paragons are rare.
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."
—  Confucius, attrib.[1]
Perfect is the enemy of good, or more literally the best is the enemy of the good, is an aphorism which is commonly attributed to Voltaire, who quoted an Italian proverb in his Dictionnaire philosophique in 1770: "Le meglio è l'inimico del bene".[2] It subsequently appeared in his moral poem, La Bégueule, which starts[3]
Dans ses écrits, un sage Italien
Dit que le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

(In his writings, a wise Italian
says that the best is the enemy of the good)
Aristotle, Confucius and other classical philosophers propounded the principle of the golden mean which counsels against extremism in general.[4] The Pareto principle or 80–20 rule explains this numerically. For example, it commonly takes 20% of the full time to complete 80% of a task while to complete the last 20% of a task takes 80% of the effort.[5] Achieving absolute perfection may be impossible and so, as increasing effort results in diminishing returns, further activity becomes increasingly inefficient.
Robert Watson-Watt, who developed early warning radar in Britain to counter the rapid growth of the Luftwaffe, propounded a "cult of the imperfect", which he stated as "Give them the third best to go on with; the second best comes too late, the best never comes."[6] Economist George Stigler says that "If you never miss a plane, you're spending too much time at the airport."[7][8]
See also[edit]
Utopia
Worse is better
Nirvana fallacy
Satisficing
gild the lily
Gold plating (software engineering)
In the field of computer program optimization, Donald Knuth is often quoted: "Premature optimization is the root of all evil"
References[edit]
Jump up ^ M.P. Singh (2005), Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations), p. 223, ISBN 8183820085
Jump up ^ Susan Ratcliffe (2011), Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Oxford University Press, p. 389, ISBN 978-0199567072
Jump up ^ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Allen W. Wood, Hugh Barr Nisbet (1991), Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Cambridge University Press, p. 447, ISBN 978-0521348881 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
Jump up ^ Tal Ben-Shahar (2009), The Pursuit of Perfect, McGraw Hill Professional, p. 113, ISBN 978-0-07-160882-4
Jump up ^ E. Gandevia, S. Breakspear (2009), Equip, Talent Generation, p. 30, ISBN 978-0980679304
Jump up ^ L Brown (1999), Technical and Military Imperatives: A Radar History of World War 2, p. 64, ISBN 9781420050660
Jump up ^ Bryan Caplan (May 20, 2010), If You Never Miss a Plane..., Library of Economics and Liberty
Jump up ^ Steven E. Landsburg (2008), More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics, Simon and Schuster, p. 224, ISBN 9781416532224
Further reading[edit]
Eric Johns (October 1988), "Perfect is the Enemy of Good Enough", U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings: 37
Robert Watson-Watt (1957), "The Cult of the Imperfect", Three Steps to Victory, Odhams, pp. 74–77
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