Roland Orzabal’s Welcome to Your Life: Love, Death and Tears for Fears is a memoir that promises more than a standard rock autobiography. It folds the rise of Tears for Fears into a more intimate account of grief, creativity, and the strange logic of astrology. What makes the memoir compelling, at least in outline, is its refusal to keep the personal and the public separate. For Tears for Fears fans, the appeal is obvious: this is the story behind songs that have lasted precisely because they turned private anguish into pop architecture. Welcome to Your Life: Love, Death and Tears for Fears is available now.