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Robert Smith considering Christmas song for The Cure

Robert Smith has penned a "really catchy pop song" that he is considering releasing as a Christmas single.

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“I think I just need to stick some Christmas words on it and get it out there!” Have The Cure written the feel-bad holiday hit of the year?

Robert Smith claims he’s written a “really catchy” pop song, and it could be the next Christmas chart-topper

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“It's not quite as dark, but it explores other subjects a little bit more”: Robert Smith confirms existence of ‘companion’ album to Songs Of A Lost World

And there’s a third in the works too

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“I played and sang Suffragette City and everyone else was doing Foxy Lady – I was so drunk, I didn’t even know”: The Cure’s Robert Smith on his disastrous first show as a singer and guitarist... when he butchered a Jimi Hendrix classic

Smith only carried on fronting the band because he’d fallen out with everyone who filled the role

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The Cure announce new live album plus expanded edition of #1 album Songs Of A The Lost World

The Cure's royalties from sales of Songs Of A Live World Troxy London MMXXlV will be donated to War Child

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How The Cure went back to their gothic roots for their new number one album

At Shrewsbury train station, there is a poster advertising The Cure’s new album, Songs of a Lost World. The confident, monochrome minimalism of the art is at odds with the rambling Victorian brickwork, yet there is a kind of sympathy there also.

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"I'd rather listen to two foxes shagging in the bushes." Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher isn't buying into all the excitement around The Cure's triumphant comeback

Oasis leader Noel Gallagher might be a long-time fan of The Cure, but, not for the first time, his little brother Liam doesn't share his opinion

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Watch The Cure cover The Beatles with James, son of Paul, McCartney on keyboards

Robert Smith & co. took on the very chirpy and unCure-like Hello Goodbye for a Paul McCartney tribute album

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The Cure score first UK No 1 album in 32 years with Songs of a Lost World

Robert Smith says getting first chart-topper since 1992’s Wish is ‘enormously uplifting’ and ‘genuinely heartwarming’

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The Cure review – an intimate, poignant show from a band more focused than they’ve been in years

Material from new album Songs of a Lost World fits perfectly amid two hours’ worth of back-catalogue hits, all performed with giddy intensity

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“No stone goes unturned”: The Cure celebrate their new album, a goth classic and everything else that makes them great at spotless London show

At the intimate Troxy venue, The Cure celebrate the newly released Songs Of A Lost World and so much more, offering three hours of surprises, singalongs and pure emotion

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Robert Smith finds it 'much harder' to write songs he wants to sing

The Cure frontman Robert Smith finds it "much harder" to write songs he "wants to sing" these days.

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The Cure’s nine essential songs, from ‘Push’ to ‘Disintegration’

THE COUNTDOWN: As the rock pioneers release their first album in 16 years, Mark Beaumont forgoes all singles and picks the best songs spanning a four-decade career

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The Cure launch new album with intimate shows

The Cure launched their long-awaited new album with two intimate concerts for the BBC on Wednesday (30.10.24).

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The Cure’s first album in 16 years is gothic, gorgeous proof that no one does misery better

5/5 All these years later, rock’s foremost goth can still tap into teenage intensity on ‘Songs of a Lost World’

The Guardian - UK

A forest of questions: take our quiz on the Cure!

Ahead of the band’s first album in 16 years coming out on Friday, superfans can test their mettle with this trivia spanning their entire career

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"Backcombed head and sloped shoulders above the dreck of indie/goth rock revivalists": Robert Smith charts his own grief and anxiety on The Cure's sombre Songs Of A Lost World

The Guardian - UK

Sick of overpriced gig tickets? Here’s the Cure

Robert Smith, defiant leader of the post-punk stalwarts, has shown that secondary markets can be bypassed, enabling ordinary people to benefit from culture

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The Guardian - UK

The Cure: Songs of a Lost World review – as promised, ‘very, very doom and gloom’

The band’s first album in 16 years finds Robert Smith and co on reliably melancholy form – with the exception of one out-and-out pop banger

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Just like heaven: the Cure’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

Ahead of the release of Songs of a Lost World – their first album in 16 years – we rate the best of a band who combine light and dark like no other

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National Album Day: 9 of the best British albums for testing your hi-fi system

To Celebrate National Album Day, we've compiled a list of favourite British albums to test your system.

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The Cure: Songs of a Lost World review – dark, personal and their best since Disintegration

The band are at an artistic peak on their first album in 16 years: movingly melancholic, with a punchy sound to match the lyrics’ emotional impact

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“Again, a bit of doom and gloom.” Robert Smith selects one song from every Cure album which reflects the mood of their new record Songs of a Lost World, and reveals which Cure album is his least favourite

The Cure's Robert Smith picks a 13-track playlist to get fans in the mood for his band's new album, Songs of a Lost World

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“Each instrument comes with a custom hardshell case, a signed COA from Robert Smith and directly supports life-saving cancer research”: Schecter and the Cure’s Robert Smith join forces for charity with the release of the Shellflower UltraCure

This limited edition run comprises an UltraCure electric guitar and its 30" scale six-string bass sibling, and $500 from the sale of each instrument goes to the World Cancer Research Fund

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“The world is falling apart. It’s insane. It’s greed, inequality, monetisation.” Robert Smith on the gloomy, reflective themes at the dark heart of The Cure's new album Songs of a Lost World

It may not entirely surprise you to learn that The Cure's first album in 16 years is not an upbeat party record

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