Everybody Wants to Rule the World
The Stranglers’ 1982 recording of “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” is the earliest release on file. Chris Hughes is credited as its writer. Roland Orzabal and Ian Stanley are on the credit through Tears for Fears’ 1985 version. Also recorded by Tears for Fears (released 1985), Gloria Gaynor (released 1986) and Lettuce (released 2019), among 232 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.
Roland Orzabal and company share the credit on this one, but The Stranglers had it on record earlier, so you get to hear the song in somebody else's hands. Follow it and you are out of the Tears for Fears catalog and into a whole new band.
Credited writer: Chris Hughes.
Roland Orzabal and Ian Stanley are on the credit through Tears for Fears’ 1985 version.
Earliest release on file: this one, 1982.
- Tears for Fears1985
- Gloria Gaynor1986
- Star Inc.1990
- Chosen Few vs. Tears for Fears2004
- Patti Smith2007
- Clare & the Reasons2008
- Andy Bull2011
- Lorde2013
- Making Movies2016
- Lettuce2019
- flipturn2023
232 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.
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