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Lol Tolhurst interview: “When I left The Cure my whole life disintegrated”. By Classic Pop | December 16, 2023. California Drumming: Lol Tolhurst and Budgie join forces with producer Garret ‘Jacknife’ Lee for a concept album made with a wide cast of artists. As a brand new album and second book hit the shelves, The Cure’s former ...
- “I Would Have Been Happy to Make These Songs on My Own”
- “It’s An Open Show of Emotion”
- “It Was Never Our Intention to Become as Big as This”
His depression heightened by the fact he would turn 30 in April 1989, Smith and his fiancée, Mary Poole, moved to a new house in London where Smith began writing a series of new songs on his own. As he later told The Cure’s biographer Jeff Apter, he’d even devised contingency plans to record a solo album if his bandmates rejected the morose new mat...
However, while a somber mood largely settles upon Disintegration, the darkness is decisively leavened by a clutch of The Cure’s most accessible tracks, such as “Pictures Of You,” “Lullaby,” and “Lovesong.” Built around a supple groove and one of Simon Gallup’s most insistent basslines, “Lovesong” in particular remains one of The Cure’s most sublime...
With its 12 tracks clocking in at well over an hour, Disintegration wasn’t for the faint-hearted, yet fans and critics alike agreed it was a tour de force. When it was released, on May 2, 1989, the NMErightly hailed it as “a mind-blowing and stunningly complete album”; it rose to No.3 on the UK chart and yielded multi-platinum sales. Though Smith l...
Oct 13, 2023 · The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst onMadonna, Manchester,and His New Memoir, Goth. By Nabil Ayers. October 13, 2023. Nabil Ayers and Lol Tolhurst, photographed by Sophie Wilde Spare. The Cure’s very first performance was at their Catholic School end-of-year assembly. Covering Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out,” Lol Tolhurst, the band’s drummer ...
Founding member Lol Tolhurst was asked to leave the band. While on tour, Smith came to realize The Cure had become everything he didn’t want it to be. And tensions while touring led to O'Donnell ...
Nov 19, 2023 · Laura Kelly. 19 Nov 2023. The Cure in 1986. Photo: Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy Stock Photo. Lol Tolhurst was just five years old when he met Robert Smith at their Catholic primary school in Crawley. Soon fast friends, they first played on stage together aged 14 at a school end-of-year show. Just a few years later, the pair (along with ...
Sep 29, 2016 · September 28, 2016. Laurence “Lol” Tolhurst — the drummer/keyboardist who met Robert Smith at age 5 in the West Sussex suburb of Crawley and went on to co-found one of Britain’s most ...
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Apr 28, 2024 · April 28, 2024 Rayna Khaitan. BUY ON AMAZON. [As an Amazon affiliate partner, Albumism earns commissions from qualifying purchases.] Happy 35th Anniversary to The Cure’s eighth studio album Disintegration, originally released May 2, 1989. I am not alone when I say The Cure ’s Disintegratio n fills my heart with endless love and gratitude.
