The Cure

Cure were formed by the singer and guitarist Robert Smith and some school friends in 77, after he attended a Stranglers show. In that time, Smith noticed that nothing could impede him of doing music, because with the punk appearance not even his depressed ideas and his sharp voice could discourage him.
In July 78, they sent a demo-tape to Chris Parry, a Polydor discoverer talents that didn't like when Polydor despised The Cure demo, and decided then to set up his own recording, Fiction Records. And was Parry who paid the recording of the first group single, Killing An Arab/10:15.
The only proximity of The Cure sound with the punk of the time it was the vitality and the energy of the compositions. Few would imagine that, eight years later, Cure would become one of the most famous english bands of the world, capable to allot stadiums in several european countries. Considered a group that passed by such different phases.
The first Cure line-up included the drummer Lol Tolhurst and bassist Michael Dempsey. After the recording of the first LP, Dempsey came out and Simon Gallup entered, and the slight songs of the first phase were substituted by heavy and slower compositions: The Cure depressing phase was inaugurated, just comparable, in morbidity terms, to Joy Division expressionist romantism.
The 'dark' phase of the Cures culminated with the LP Pornography, the fourth one, released in 82. In this and in the previous years, Smith, author of all the lyrics, explores the visions that accompany him since the day in which thought that to the 25 years old would be dead: falls, sands, dust, blood, screams, pain, drownings, despair, fear, as whether all the things of the world caused strangeness.
Pornography is in some way a mark. It represents the peak and at the same time the end of the dark phase of The Cure, and it also marks the period most difficult on the group musical career: Simon Gallup and Robert Smith really fight in a bar in Brussels, and Gallup left the group, a little before the release of LP.
Surprisingly, it was exactly starting from Robert Smith twentieth fifth birthday that the things began to move. In that time, Smith entered for Banshees and, during several parallel works, he still got breath to repair a 'new' Cure. Lol Tolhurst, original member of The Cure, decided to change the battery for the keyboards and happier with the life Smith began to elaborate new composition formulas and arrangement. Counting on invited musicians Cure issued, starting from 83, beautiful songs like "Let's Go To Bed", "The Lovecats" and "The Walk", every reaching the english chart, just gotten before with "Boys Don't Cry", in 79.
In 84, Smith and Tolhurst made a disc practically alone, the LP The Top. Soon after, right after the accomplishment of formidable tours around the world, the group consolidated as a band of excellent musicians executing Robert Smith brilliant ideas. And, with the return of Simon Gallup to the bass and the release of the LP The Head On The Door, something was verified: they won't stop.