Robert Smith went to great lengths to avoid putting out a new Cure record over the past decade and more. There have been world tours, more world tours, another world tour, collaborations with The Twilight Sad, Gorillaz, Chvrches and more, taking on Ticketmaster, redecorating the spare room, anything, it seemed to avoid finishing and putting out the record that would become this month’s all-conquering Songs Of A Lost World.
One such diversion came out ten years ago this month as Smith and his bandmates appeared on a mammoth tribute album to Paul McCartney titled The Art Of McCartney. The Cure surprisingly opted for the very chirpy Hello Goodbye, enlisting Sir Macca’s son James to help them out on keyboards.
