"Advice for the Young at Heart" is a song released in 1990 by the British band Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears are an English new wave band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith.Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, they were initially associated with the New Wave synthesiser bands of the early 1980s but later branched out into...

, taken from their 1989 album The Seeds of Love

The Seeds of Love

-Bonus tracks:Note: A remix of "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" was also released as a separate single in the UK and reached #70 on the charts.-Personnel:* Drums - Manu Katché, Chris Hughes, Phil Collins, Simon Phillips* Bass - Pino Palladino, Curt Smith...

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The song was a Top 40 hit in the UK (#36), France

France

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 (#31), Canada

Canada

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 (#25) and The Netherlands

Netherlands

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 (#22), and a Top 20 hit in Ireland

Ireland

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 (#15). In 1992, when Tears for Fears released Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82-92)

Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82-92)

Tears Roll Down is a compilation album released by the British band Tears for Fears in 1992.The album contains all the Top 20 hits up to that point released in the U.K. and internationally, and one new single, "Laid So Low ", which also made the Top 20 in the U.K...

, "Advice for the Young at Heart" was re-released in Brazil.

It was written by Roland Orzabal

Roland Orzabal

Roland Jaime Orzabal de la Quintana is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is known mainly as a co-founding member of Tears for Fears, of which he is the main songwriter and joint vocalist, but he has also achieved success as a producer of other artists.- Early career :Orzabal...

 and keyboardist/singer Nicky Holland. The lead vocal was sung by Curt Smith

Curt Smith

Curt Smith is an English musician. He is best known for forming the band Tears for Fears, along with childhood friend Roland Orzabal. Also a solo artist, he released his third album Halfway, Pleased in May 2008....

 (and was the only track he sang on the whole The Seeds of Love album).

The lyric ""Love is a promise, love is a souvenir once given, never forgotten, never let it disappear"" is a quote by John Lennon

John Lennon

John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

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Music video

The video for the song was filmed in Florida

Florida

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. It features a Latin-American wedding interspersed with shots of the band performing. It was the last Tears for Fears video to feature both Orzabal and Smith before their acrimonious split in the early 1990s. It would be 15 years before they next made a video together ("Closest Thing to Heaven

Closest Thing to Heaven

"Closest Thing to Heaven" is a song by the British band Tears for Fears. It was released as the first single from their 2004 album Everybody Loves a Happy Ending and is the first single that features both original members Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith since 1990.The song was also Tears for Fears'...

" in 2005).

Track listings

CD maxi

1. "Advice for the Young at Heart" — 4:49
2. "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" — 4:16
3. "Music for Tables" — 3:32
4. "Johnny Panic And the Bible of Dreams" (instrumental) — 4:18

7" single

1. "Advice for the Young at Heart" — 4:45
2. "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" — 4:16

12" maxi

1. "Advice for the Young at Heart" — 4:49
2. "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" — 4:16
3. "Music for Tables" — 3:32

Chart

Chart (1989-1990)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	36
Canada Singles Chart	25
Dutch Mega Top 100	22
French SNEP Singles Chart	31
German Singles Chart	51
Irish IRMA Singles Chart	15
Italian Singles Chart	49
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	89
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	24