The 2000 song that stopped Robert Smith splitting up The Cure

The 2000 song that stopped Robert Smith splitting up The Cure

Few bands of world-famous stature have the rare enjoyment of releasing no terrible albums, and I’d count The Cure among this lucky set. The band started in a time far from our own—1976, to be exact—in a place not typically known for producing superstars, Crawley. After their 1979 debut, Three Imaginary Boys, they grew as goth pioneers before breaking into the mainstream, with frontman Robert Smith regarded as one of the best to ever do it. What …