PHNO-SB: CAPACITY CROWD AT 'TEARS FOR FEARS' CONCERT INCLUDES, RECTO, CORONA & AGA

CAPACITY CROWD AT 'TEARS FOR FEARS' CONCERT
INCLUDES, RECTO, CORONA & AGA
MANILA, AUGUST 13, 2012 (INQUIRER) By: Pocholo Concepcion - At work
they are formal, serious, controversial even.
But at the concert of British band Tears for Fears on Saturday
night (August 11) at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, Senator Ralph Recto played the
air drums from his seat, actor and soon-to-be congressional candidate Aga
Muhlach danced in the aisle, and ousted Chief Justice Renato Corona appeared
relaxed while his family sang along with the rest of the capacity crowd.

Many in the audience had been in their teens or 20s at the peak of Tears for
Fears' popularity in the mid-1980s.

Recto, who was then in college at De La Salle University, sat in the front
row with his son Ryan. Muhlach, who had his breakout role in the teenybopper
film "Bagets" in 1983 and is apparently a big fan of the band, watched the show
with his wife, Charlene Gonzalez.

Corona, who looked like he was enjoying his new life as a private citizen,
came with his daughter, Carla, and her husband, Dr. Constantino Castillo, who
were Tears for Fears fanatics. Corona's wife, Cristina, stood up every so often
to take photos of the action onstage.

The gig was the second in a series of three shows that started on Friday.


A festive atmosphere prevailed. Loud cheers greeted the show's opening
act—Per Sorensen, former lead singer of the Norwegian group Fra Lippo Lippi. He
was visibly in high spirits while singing Fra Lippo's biggest hits which
included "The Distance Between Us," "Shouldn't Have to Be Like That," "Everytime
I See You," "Angel," "Beauty and Madness" and "Some People."

British singer-songwriter Carina Round, who had joined Tears for Fears as a
backup vocalist, was given the spotlight for a few solo numbers. She announced
that the band was donating proceeds from the sales of T-shirts and other concert
merchandise to the Philippine Red Cross to help victims of last week's floods.


The crowd stood up and let out a mighty roar as soon as Tears for Fears
played the first few notes to "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"—one of the
tracks on its 1985 worldwide hit album, "Songs from the Big Chair."

The fans went crazy when the more popular hits were played—"Mad World,"
"Advice for the Young at Heart," "Pale Shelter," "Head over Heels," "Woman in
Chains," and the rousing finale, "Shout."

It was while these songs were being played that Recto gave in to his urges
and acted like he was playing the imaginary drums. Muhlach, on the other hand,
danced like the bagets he once was. Corona looked relaxed. Beside him, his
daughter sang merrily along.





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