Everybody Loves a Happy Ending

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Metacritic	(65/100)^[1]
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Everybody Loves a Happy Ending is the sixth studio album by the 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.

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.^[9]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Everybody Loves a Happy Ending"	Orzabal, Smith, Pettus	4:21
2.	"Closest Thing to Heaven"	Orzabal, Smith, Pettus	3:36
3.	"Call Me Mellow"	Orzabal, Smith, Pettus	3:39
4.	"Size of Sorrow"	Orzabal	4:43
5.	"Who Killed Tangerine?"	Orzabal, Smith, Pettus	5:33
6.	"Quiet Ones"	Orzabal	4:22
7.	"Who You Are"	Smith, Pettus	3:41
8.	"The Devil"	Orzabal	3:30
9.	"Secret World"	Orzabal	5:12
10.	"Killing with Kindness"	Orzabal, Smith, Pettus	5:25
11.	"Ladybird"	Orzabal, Smith, Pettus	4:50
12.	"Last Days on Earth"	Orzabal, Smith, Pettus	5:41

Bonus tracks (UK, Italian and French releases)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"Pullin' a Cloud"	Orzabal, Dorsey, MacLeod	2:48
14.	"Out of Control"	Orzabal, Smith, Griffiths, Pettus	5:08

Personnel

Roland Orzabal - guitars, keyboards, lead vocals
Curt Smith - bass, keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals ("Size of Sorrow", "Who You Are")
Charlton Pettus - keyboards
Fred Eltringham - drums
Brian Geltner - drums ("Size of Sorrow")
Rick Baptist - trumpet ("Everybody Loves a Happy Ending")
Kenny Siegal - guitar ("Size of Sorrow"), backing vocals ("Who Killed Tangerine?")
Gwen Snyder - backing vocals ("Who Killed Tangerine?")
Alexander Giglio - backing vocals ("Who Killed Tangerine?")
Julian Orzabal - crowd vocals ("Who Killed Tangerine?")
Laura Gray - crowd vocals ("Who Killed Tangerine?")
Paul Buckmaster - orchestra arrangement and conducting ("Secret World")
Bob Becker - viola ("Secret World")
Charlie Bisharat - violin ("Secret World")
Denyse Buffman - viola ("Secret World")
Eve Butler - violin ("Secret World")
Mario de Leon - violin ("Secret World")
Joel Derouin - violin ("Secret World")
Stefanie Fife - cello ("Secret World")
Armen Garabedian - violin ("Secret World")
Berj Garabedian - violin ("Secret World")
Barry Gold - cello ("Secret World")
Gary Grant - trumpet, flugelhorn ("Secret World")
Maurice Grants - cello ("Secret World")
Julian Hallmark - violin ("Secret World")
Vahe Hayrikyan - cello ("Secret World")
Norm Hughes - violin ("Secret World")
Suzie Katayama - cello, contracting ("Secret World")
Roland Kato - viola ("Secret World")
Peter Kent - violin ("Secret World")
Steve Kujala - flute ("Secret World")
Gayle Levant - harp ("Secret World")
Michael Markman - violin ("Secret World")
Miguel Martinez - cello ("Secret World")
Robert Matsuda - violin ("Secret World")
Carole Mukogawa - viola ("Secret World")
Sid Page - violin ("Secret World")
Sandra Park - violin ("Secret World")
Sara Parkins - violin ("Secret World")
Joel Peskin - baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone ("Secret World")
Bob Peterson - violin ("Secret World")
Karie Prescott - viola ("Secret World")
Dan Smith - cello ("Secret World")
Rudy Stein - cello ("Secret World")
Lesa Terry - violin ("Secret World")
Josefina Veraga - violin ("Secret World")
David Washburn - trumpet, flugelhorn ("Secret World")
Evan Wilson - viola ("Secret World")
John Wittenberg - violin ("Secret World")

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

Year	Chart	Position
2004	US	46
2005	UK	45
	FRA	28
	GER	35
	NL	86
	SWI	48

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2004	"Call Me Mellow"	US Adult Top 40	28
2005	"Closest Thing to Heaven"	UK	40

References

External links

Everybody Loves a Happy Ending at Metacritic

Tears for Fears

Roland Orzabal Curt Smith Ian Stanley Manny Elias

Studio albums	The Hurting Songs from the Big Chair The Seeds of Love Elemental Raoul and the Kings of Spain Everybody Loves a Happy Ending

Live albums	Secret World Live in Paris

Compilations	Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92) Saturnine Martial & Lunatic Shout: The Very Best of Tears for Fears

Singles	"Suffer the Children" "Pale Shelter" "Mad World" "Change" "The Way You Are" "Mothers Talk" "Shout" "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" "Everybody Wants to Run the World" "Head over Heels" "I Believe (A Soulful Re-Recording)" "Mothers Talk (US Remix)" "Sowing the Seeds of Love" "Woman in Chains" "Advice for the Young at Heart" "Famous Last Words" "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" "Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)" "Break It Down Again" "Cold" "Goodnight Song" "Elemental" "Raoul and the Kings of Spain" "God's Mistake" "Secrets" "Falling Down" "Closest Thing to Heaven" "Everybody Loves a Happy Ending/Call Me Mellow" "Secret World"

Video/DVD releases	The Videosingles In My Mind's Eye Scenes from the Big Chair Sowing the Seeds Going to California Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92) Secret World (Live in Paris)

Related articles	Discography Graduate

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