Music
Robert Smith, the Cure’s eccentric leader, likes to drink. Now and then he suffers a hangover.
July 20, 1986
The Cure is one of the many fascinating bands that came out of the English pop-music revolution of 1976-77.
July 12, 1987
The 2019 class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees has a pronounced English accent, as British rock bands the Cure, Def Leppard, Radiohead, Roxy Music and the Zombies will join the hall’s ranks next year.
Dec. 13, 2018
The Cure’s live show, its first in seven years here, felt like this summer’s black-mascara counterpart to Taylor Swift’s splashy and bedazzled Eras tour.
May 24, 2023
Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and the Sex Pistols may come and go, but rebellion remains a key part of the rock ‘n’ roll experience.
July 26, 1986
“Boys Don’t Cry” is a lovely, haunting pop song by English group, the Cure.
R obert Smith explores dread, loss and loneliness in grand, haunting musical structures and sings in a piping, little-boy-hurt voice.
June 21, 1992
Zac Brown Band’s John Driskell Hopkins shared that he has ALS, a neurodegenerative disease that can make it impossible to speak, move and eat.
May 24, 2022
California
An Orange County judge has ordered the alternative rock group the Cure to pay $75,000 to a 25-year-old man who claimed he was roughed up by the band’s bodyguard after a concert at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheater in 1996.
Feb. 26, 1999
Pop music: A few years ago, the nearly 20-year-old band appeared to be about to splinter. Instead, it has new members and a new sound.
June 5, 1996