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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.
In February 1989, Tolhurst's exit was made official and announced to the press; [67] this resulted in O'Donnell becoming a full-fledged member of the band and left Smith as the Cure's only remaining founding member. Smith attributed Tolhurst's dismissal to an inability to exert himself and issues with alcohol, concluding, "He was out of step ...
Formed in 1976, [1] [2] [3] the Cure grew out of a band known as Malice. Malice formed in January 1976 and underwent several line-up changes and a name change to Easy Cure [4] before The Cure was founded in May 1978. The Cure's original line-up consisted of guitarist/vocalist Robert Smith, drummer Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst and bassist Michael ...
The Cure’s lineup remained in flux for years as Smith shifted the band’s sound from post-punk to goth to tuneful pop/rock, eventually writing massive Top 40 hits like 1987’s “Just Like ...
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.
Back in 2005 Yahoo Entertainment chatted with Simon Gallup, Jason Cooper, and Robert Smith of the Cure about their band's revolving door of musicians over the years.
Simon Johnathon Gallup [1] (born 1 June 1960) is an English musician who is best known as bassist for The Cure, which he first joined in 1979 and for which he has played through most of the band's history. Gallup is the second-longest-serving member of the band, after leader Robert Smith. [2]
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 ...