And that’s the 50th anniversary of the first Cure album [Three Imaginary Boys]
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Robert Smith
Robert James Smith is an English musician who is the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the Cure, a post-punk band formed in 1976. His guitar-playing style, and distinctive singing voice shaped the sounding identity of the Cure. His fashion sense were highly influential on the goth subculture that rose to prominence in the 1980s.
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entertainment · English rock musician (born 1959) · singer-songwriter · guitarist · singer · manufacturer · keyboardist · also Robert Smith, Robert Smith (musician), Robert James Smith, Smith
Born 21 April 1959 · Q491252
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We all voted and we had an award night. It was very moving.
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2029· 1 entry
2026· 33 entries
“For as far back as I can remember, we have all been huge fans of the Cure, so reading that was obviously mind blowing – although I was always slightly sceptical, thinking it was maybe Barry Burns from Mogwai trying to pull some elaborate joke on us,”
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“We all voted and we had an award night. It was very moving.”
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“Disintegration is the best album ever!”
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“makes it all that more special”
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“think there is such a thing as a typical Cure sound. I think there are various Cure sounds from different periods and different line-ups.”
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“was a cut above the whole lot of them”
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“Perfect Blue Sky (feat. Robert Smith)”
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Legacy obituary: Robert Roy Smith Obituary (2026) - Pisgah Forest, NC - McAlister-Smith Funeral & Cremation - Mt. Pleasant Location
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PR Newswire: NFL Star Robert Smith to Headline JumpStart VC Fest, Joining National Speaker Lineup as Startups and Venture Leaders Converge on Cleveland
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YouTube: what’s wrong with me - Olivia Rodrigo, Robert Smith Piano Cover #oliviarodrigo #piano #livies
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Legacy obituary: Robert D Smith Obituary (2026) - Wakefield, RI - Avery-Storti Funeral Home & Crematory - Wakefield
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Gizmodo en Español: Robert Smith, Radiohead, Massive Attack y Brian Eno se han unido contra uno de los mayores proyectos petroleros del Reino Unido. Más de 200 músicos quieren que Rosebank muera antes de empezar a producir
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Legacy obituary: Robert Lee Smith Obituary (2026) - Pensacola, FL - Joe Morris & Son Funeral Home
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Post and Courier: Robert Smith McCoy, Jr. Obituary (1938 - 2026) - Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
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Dignity Memorial: Robert Smith Obituary - Pontotoc, MS
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Legacy obituary: Robert Brian Smith Obituary (1959 - 2026) - Ponchatoula, LA - AN17
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Legacy obituary: Robert Joseph Smith Obituary (2026) - Bourne, MA - Cartmell-Davis Funeral & Cremation Service, Inc. - Main Office
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Dignity Memorial: Robert Smith Obituary - Hot Springs, AR
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Gritaradio.com: Robert Smith, miembros de Radiohead, Bobby Gillespie y Brian Eno firman una carta oponiéndose al yacimiento petrolífero de Rosebank.
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Legacy obituary: Robert Evans Smith III Obituary (2026) - Memphis, TN - N.J. Ford and Sons Funeral Home, Inc. - Memphis
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Sopitas.com: ¿Qué es el proyecto Rosebank y por qué Robert Smith, Thom Yorke y Massive Attack están en su contra?
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The Independent: Øya is a joyous festival with enough heart to bring even Robert Smith to tears
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Far Out Magazine: Thom Yorke, Brian Eno and Robert Smith sign letter against North Sea oil drilling
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inkl: Robert Smith, Thom Yorke and Brian Eno among names to sign anti-Rosebank letter
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NME: Thom Yorke, Massive Attack, Robert Smith and Brian Eno pressure Andy Burnham over controversial oil field plan
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Far Out Magazine: The disaster 1977 night when Robert Smith first fronted The Cure
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Ultimate Guitar: Olivia Rodrigo's 'the cure' Flips Her Robert Smith Nod Into a Song That Can't Fix Anything: Its Fingerpicked Pedal Tone
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FandomWire: Todd Stephens & Birkett Turton Talk Gypsy 83 Director's Cut, Sara Rue, and Support from Robert Smith [INTERVIEW]
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Tribute Archive: Duane Robert Smith Jr. Obituary | Cortner Chapel | Redlands, CA
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Legacy obituary: Robert Smith Obituary - August 15, 2026 - Memphis, Tennessee
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Public attention spiked: 38,856 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.8× the usual 5,010, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 20,429 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.1× the usual 5,010, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 15,286 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.1× the usual 5,010, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: Reverting edit(s) by ~2026-33644-42 (talk) to rev. 1358170488 by Furyroad97: Not providing a reliable source (RW 16.1)
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2025· 5 entries
“'It's Closeness, It's Easy' furthers @planningforburial.bsky.social's dark, captivating vision Dom Lepore reviews www.treblezine.com/planning-for...”
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““Whispers On Argyle” is out tonight at midnight!”
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“The water company crisis just got worse, thanks to Labour www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...”
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“thetwilightsad.bandcamp.com/album/stripp...”
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“www.discogs.com/digs/music/g...”
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2024· 7 entries
“@robert.thecure.com RECENTLY SAT DOWN WITH DANIEL P. CARTER FOR A RADIO 1 ROCK SHOW SPECIAL. LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW ON BBC RADIO1 THIS EVENING FROM 10PM & VIA BBC.CO.UK/SOUNDS/”
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“Eye in the sky. You're looking at the Ring Nebula, the remnant of a star that had the mass of 3 suns and exploded ~4,000 years ago. 🔭 🧪”
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“"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever." - Carl Sagan, in Cosmos (1980) Visualisation of our galactic cluster 💫😲💫✨💫🌌💫 NASA”
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“last thing it needs is them getting involved”
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“I don't know why I'm sending you a postcard.”
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“I’m 70 in 2029, and that’s the 50th anniversary of the first Cure album [Three Imaginary Boys]. If I make it that far, that’s it. In the intervening time, I’d like to include playing concerts as part of the overall plan of what we’re going to do. I’ve loved it; the last 10 years of playing shows have been the best 10 years of being in the band. It pisses all over the other 30-odd years! It’s been great”
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Smith signed an open letter criticizing the use of artificial intelligence in music
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2022· 1 entry
Andrew Daly of Guitar World ranked him at number four in the "22 guitar heroes who shaped the sound of '80s indie and alternative rock", saying he "set the gold standard for post-punk, goth rock, new wave, and art rock"
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2019· 2 entries
And Rolling Stone magazine ranked him as the 157th greatest singer of all time in 2023
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"I've always held what could be considered a socialist viewpoint on the world
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2015· 3 entries
“There's a Girl in the Corner”
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Smith also contributed vocals to "In All Worlds", a single from Eat Static's album Dead Planet
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Smith contributed vocals to the song "Please" from the album 8:58, a project by Paul Hartnoll
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2012· 1 entry
Robert again recorded a solo cover version for a Tim Burton project; this time covering Frank Sinatra's 1957 hit song "Witchcraft" for Frankenweenie Unleashed
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2011· 1 entry
Smith described himself as "a liberal kind of guy," but "uncomfortable with politicised musicians"
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2010· 1 entry
Contributed a cover of "Very Good Advice" from the 1951 film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland to the album Almost Alice; a companion release to Tim Burton's adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, while "Pirate Ships" fro
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2009· 1 entry
Burton presented Smith with the Shockwaves NME Godlike Genius Award, saying that when he was "chained to a desk" and "fucking depressed" during his time as a young animator for Disney, "this music was the only thing that
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Asian Knights: Japan Tour 1983”.
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2004· 2 entries
In an episode of the BBC surreal comedy series The Mighty Boosh, "Nanageddon" (Series 2, episode 11), the character Vince Noir offers Howard Moon the opportunity to spend the evening with two goth girls, on the condition
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On 17 September at Old Billingsgate Market in London, Smith joined Blink-182 live onstage to perform "All of This" during the MTV Icon tribute to the Cure
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2000· 2 entries
“there is one particular kind of music, an atmospheric type of music, that I enjoy making with the Cure. I enjoy it a lot more than any other kind of sound”
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Smith said that "there is one particular kind of music, an atmospheric type of music, that I enjoy making with the Cure
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1999· 2 entries
Via Internet and in 2000 on CD by E-magine Music
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“they were postponing it so much that I got involved with [the Cure”
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1998· 1 entry
Smith voiced an animated version of himself in "Mecha-Streisand", an episode of South Park, in which he battles "Mecha Barbra Streisand" in "a battle of Godzilla vs
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1996· 2 entries
Smith confirmed to French magazine Télérama that Burton had approached the Cure about a number of collaborations, and regularly kept in touch with the group about each of his latest film projects, but that they had thus
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And followed by the Swing Tour, concluding in early 1997
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1993· 2 entries
Described the release of "Anarchy in the UK" by the Sex Pistols as "the last time something major happened to me and changed me [
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Smith and Bryan "Chuck" New remixed the extended 12" version of Cranes' single "Jewel" from the album; Smith again contributing his trademark Fender Bass VI sound and additional guitars to the remixed track
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1992· 2 entries
Smith invited Cranes to support the Cure live on the Wish Tour
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Smith also offered the following input on how detuned instruments played a significant role in the album, and the challenges of capturing the sound live
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1989· 2 entries
“s reference, and thought The Sandman was”
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Followed by a US-only release of The Pear Tree EP the following year
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1988· 2 entries
During the mid-1980s, Janet gave up a professional career as a pianist to spend more time with Thompson and the Cure, and the couple were married in March 1988, making Smith and Thompson brothers-in-law until the couple divorced in 2000.
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A Spin magazine interview with Smith reported that "the director of Pee-wee's Big Adventure" [Tim Burton] had asked Smith to make an appearance in a film
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1987· 1 entry
The double album Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, with singles "Just Like Heaven" and "Hot, Hot, Hot
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1986· 1 entry
Smith altered his image by appearing on-stage sporting short spiky hair which can be seen in The Cure in Orange
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1985· 3 entries
“s future early in his musical career, which he used as significant motivation to ensure the band was successful. It has been reported by the Daily Express that she used to be a model and worked as a nurse with intellectually disabled children, but gave up her job so that the couple would not have to spend so much time apart as the Cure became more financially successful during the mid-1980s. He told The Face in 1985 that he had once accidentally left a video camera running in their home:”
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That he had once accidentally left a video camera running in their home: "After a couple of hours you forget that it's on and I was quite horrified at the amount of rubbish we say to each other
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The band had success with The Head on the Door, with Smith as the sole songwriter
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1984· 2 entries
Smith started incorporating Spanish acoustic guitars (notably on the songs "Birdmad Girl", and "The Caterpillar"), and from the mid-80s onward Smith included more acoustic guitar instrumentation on later Cure songs such
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When being the guitarist of Siouxsie and the Banshees and borrowing Siouxsie Sioux's lipstick
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1982· 1 entry
Smith claimed to have written "90 per cent of the Pornography album", and that he therefore could not leave the Cure, because it would not be the Cure without him
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1981· 1 entry
Although their respective commitments to the Cure and the Banshees had previously left no time for the project
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1979· 3 entries
Smith said, "It allowed me to experiment
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“It allowed me to experiment. I inherited an approach from John [McKay] which was just to have everything full up. [...] It was phased/flanged distortion noise.”
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To which Margaret contributed backing vocals
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1978· 1 entry
Smith was using a Woolworth's Top 20 electric guitar, and he was advised by Chris Parry to use a better instrument
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1976· 1 entry
Which took place at the school and allegedly caused a riot: "I got taken back [in 1977] but they never acknowledged that I was there [
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1972· 1 entry
Smith first saw David Bowie on television, performing "Starman" on Top of the Pops
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1969· 1 entry
When he first heard Nick Drake's album Five Leaves Left: "Nick Drake's on the other side of the coin to Jimi Hendrix
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1967· 1 entry
Richard played him "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix, who became hugely influential
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1966· 1 entry
When he turned seven years old, his older brother Richard taught him "a few basic chords" on guitar
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1959· 1 entry
Born 1959-04-21.
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