“It's a really good chord progression, I couldn't believe no-one else had used it”: How the Cure sidestepped the gloom and wrote one of the most uplifting songs ever recorded

The Cure Video.

If we asked you the question, which ‘happy’ song genuinely makes you feel uplifted, what springs to mind? Perhaps something timeless, like Lovely Day by Bill Withers, or a selection from the expansive, joyous oeuvre of Stevie Wonder. Or, maybe something by ABBA is more to your taste…

We’d have you for hours, we assume, before you’d point toward goth’s arch-figureheads, the Cure, as go-to smile-inducers.