Born Nicholas Bowen Headon in 1955 in Bromley (England), he joined the iconic English band from their second album in 1978.

Tears for Fears were one of the most successful pop rock outfits of the 1980s, but their defining hit featured a lyric lifted from punk heroes The Clash.

When they first entered a recording studio, demoing tracks for Polydor in November 1977, it’s unlikely The Clash imagined that, 35 years later, they’d be one of rock’s biggest heritage acts. For a ...

"Every hundred people who passed, there'd be one who'd stop and ask, 'Are you Topper Headon from The Clash?'" He shrugs, "I'd have to say, 'Yeah, this is what I do now.' It was so humiliating." ...