“I wanted to make the ultimate record. And then the band could stop”: How The Cure’s Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers albums became goth’s great ‘Dark Trilogy’

The Cure posing for a photograph in 1984.

The return of The Cure with brand new single Alone has prompted a resurgence of interest in the British goth icons. In 2004, founder and frontman Robert Smith spoke to Classic Rock’s Siân Llewellyn about the highs and lows of his band’s influential career.

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