“I told them I was dying and they didn’t believe me. I could tell by the look on my doctor’s face that there was something very, very wrong with me”: Robert Smith on the madness and the magic of The Cure’s early days

Lol Tolhurst and Robert Smith of The Cure in 1983.

In 1983, The Cure’s frontman Robert Smith made a rather strange decision. At the same time that his band made a big breakthrough with their first top 10 single in the UK, Smith elected to go on tour playing guitar for another band – Siouxsie And The Banshees.

And as it turned out, that decision almost proved disastrous.