“Head Over Heels” by Tears for Fears

"Head Over Heels" comes from Songs from the Big Chair, the second Tears for Fears album, in 1985, and it's a big, swooning slice of new wave that keeps building and building until it seems ready to lift clean off the ground. Chris Hughes produced it, and every layer is lacquered to a high shine without smothering the ache underneath.

In Britain it was the fourth single taken from the album, out in June 1985, and it reached number 12, the band's eighth trip into the top 40 there. The UK release came in extra formats for the collectors, too: a 10-inch single and a limited picture disc cut in the shape of a four-leaf clover. America got it that September as the album's third single, and it kept the band's hot streak rolling all the way to number three on Billboard's Hot 100.

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