You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
I have three live events this month.
On May 15th,
I'm playing some of my songs at a show in L.A. at the Moroccan Lounge with my friend Ouadeh for her album release show.
And on May 21st,
I'm playing a show in Brooklyn with my friend Ken Pomeroy celebrating her album release at Babies All Right.
In between those two concerts,
I'm introducing a screening of the David Lynch film The Straight Story,
which features one of my all-time favorite film scores by Angelo Badalamenti.
That screening is at Vidiot's in LA on May 17th.
Tickets for all of these are at rishikesh.co.
That's my first name, rishikesh.co.
Hope to see you in either LA or Brooklyn.
This episode contains explicit language.
Tears for Fears is a duo formed in 1981 in Bath, England by Roland Orzebal and Kurt Smith.
They've sold over 30 million albums, starting with their first,
The Herding, which went to number one in the UK.
But it was their second album, Songs from the Big Chair, that made them international stars.