The cure band members 2016

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    How many original members are still in The Cure?

    2 November 2024, 22:08

    With The Cure set to release their first album in 16 years, Songs Of A Lost World, Radio X takes a look back at the band's long history... and who's been in the band since the beginning.

    The Cure have revealed that their new single Alone will premiere on 26th September. The lead track from the veteran band's long-awaited 14th album, Songs Of A Lost World, it marks the first new material from Robert Smith and co in 16 years.

    Over a career lasting over fyra decades years, The Cure have seen members come and go. Some have even gone and come back. With a back catalogue that spans 1979's debut album Three Imaginary Boys, through the hugely successful LPs Disintegration (1989) and Wish (1992) right up to the new outing Songs Of A Lost World, there have been numerous line-ups of this enduring British band.

    Radio X has gone back through the archives and totted up just how many members

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    It all started in 1976 as Easy Cure, formed by Robert Smith (vocals, guitar) along with schoolmates Michael Dempsey (bass), Lol Tolhurst (drums) and local gitarr hero Porl Thompson. They began writing and demoing their own songs almost immediately, playing throughout 1977 in Southern England to an ever growing army of fans. In 1978 the 'Easy' was dropped, along with Porl, and an eager trio now known simply as The Cure were quickly signed to Chris Parry's new Fiction label.

    In May 1979 their debut album Three Imaginary Boys was released to great acclaim, and as the band toured extensively around the UK, the singles “Boys Don't Cry” and “Jumping Someone Else's Train” were released.

    Michael left the band at the end of the year, and Simon Gallup (bass) and Matthieu Hartley (keyboards) joined. In early 1980 the Cure quartet embarked on an exploration of the darker side of Robert's song writing, and emerged with the minimalist classic album Seventeen Seconds, along with thei

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    The Cure – 29 November 2016, Manchester Arena

    I don’t think look like a typical fan of The Cure (though I shouldn’t have been surprised they attract fans of all looks and ages) but my love of their amazing, intriguing and visual lyrics means that since my first ever visit to Derby where I brought there greatest hits album I have been a massive fan and desperate to see them live, so when my boyfriend pointed out a couple of weeks ago that there were a few tickets left for there gig at Manchester Arena, only one of four UK dates in their European tour and the only gig outside of London I had to spend the last of my pay cheque on them.

    Presenting Robert Smith on vocals and guitar, Simon Gallup on bass, Jason Cooper on drums, Roger O’Donnell on keyboard and Reeves Gabrels on guitar, the show promised to explore 37 years of Cure songs, mixing hits, rarities, favourites and as yet unreleased tracks in a brand new stage production that I knew would be one of my must

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