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The Cure are an English alternative rock band from Crawley.Formed in May 1978, [1] [2] [3] the group originally consisted of vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist Robert Smith (the only constant member), bassist Michael Dempsey and drummer Lol Tolhurst.
The founding members of the Cure were school friends at Notre Dame Middle School in Crawley. [2] They first performed in public at an end-of-year show in April 1973 as members of a one-off school band called Obelisk. [3]
Robert James Smith (born 21 April 1959) is an English musician who is the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the Cure, a post punk rock band formed in 1976.
During the tour supporting the Pornography album in 1982, band relations within The Cure became contentious. After a performance in Strasbourg, France, on 27 May 1982, Gallup and Robert Smith got into a fistfight reportedly over a disputed bar tab. [2] The tour continued, and at another performance in Brussels, Belgium, on 11 June, the band invited roadie Gary Biddles (a friend of Gallup's) on ...
The Cure themselves had been discussing such a project of their own, and O'Donnell and Tolhurst joined the band onstage at the Sydney Opera House in Australia. [12] O'Donnell then officially rejoined the Cure and remains with the band to the present day. [1] In 2019, O'Donnell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the ...
Robert Smith has been the only consistent member of the Cure since the band formed in 1978, and he’s an icon in his own right. Smith’s massively teased out black hair and red lips, and the ...
“The Cure’s whole raison d’être is right there in those three albums,” he said. “They’re very much a diary of our lives at the time, so it’s always special to listen to (them) and ...
Following his departure from the Cure, in 1990 Tolhurst formed the band Presence with singer Gary Biddles, who had been an early member of the Cure's road crew and was previously a member of Fools Dance. Presence released the album Inside in 1993; a second album titled Closer was recorded during this period but was not released until 2014.