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Starr's version of the song was used as the basis for a cover version by Ugly Rumours, a group formed by Tony Blair while at university. The song was released by the Stop the War Coalition and credited to Ugly Rumours, with the band being fronted by a lookalike of Blair. It peaked at number 21 on the UK Singles Chart in March 2007.
The Cure is the first record by the band released by producer Ross Robinson's I Am label, with whom the Cure signed a three-album deal. To promote the album, the band appeared at several festivals in Europe and the United States in spring [ambiguous] 2004. They also premièred the song "The End of the World" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
The Cure's debut album, Three Imaginary Boys (1979), reached number 44 on the UK Albums Chart. [5] The next two albums, Seventeen Seconds (1980) and Faith (1981), were top 20 hits in the UK, reaching number 20 and number 14 respectively. [5] Between 1982 and 1996, the Cure released seven studio albums, all of which reached the Top 10 in the UK. [5]
If I told you 40 years ago, when the Cure was in the midst of its new-wave wonder moment, that the band would craft an inventively elegiac epic like “Songs for a Lost World” — a singular ...
The second song on the album, the 11-minute epic “Watching Me Fall,” is the longest studio track in the Cure discography, but most of what follows feels minor and anticlimactic by comparison.
"Spill the Wine" was War's first hit of two with Eric Burdon as vocalist. [10] It peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. [11] Billboard ranked the single the number 20 song of 1970. [12] It was also a top 3 hit in Canada [13] and number 2 in Australia in mid-November 1970. [14]
The song saw controversy again during the Persian Gulf War and following the September 11 attacks. [12] The song was revived in 2005, when the band performed it at several European festivals. The lyrics, however, were changed from "Killing an Arab" to "Kissing an Arab".
Seventeen Seconds is the second studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 18 April 1980 by Fiction Records. The album marked the first time frontman Robert Smith co-produced with Mike Hedges. After the departure of original bassist Michael Dempsey, Simon Gallup became an official member along with keyboardist Matthieu Hartley.