You can’t fail to have missed the minor Twitter uproar that occurred across the weekend of 29 - 31 March 2019. If you did, you would have seen Robert Smith become an internet and social media sensation. What happened was this: The Cure were to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame … Continue reading 21 April 2019: Robert Smith at 60 – viral sensation!
So, it was Sounds that was the first magazine/newspaper to put The Cure on their front cover. A title that remained reasonably fair to the band in the decades to come, up until it closed in 1991. According to Dave McCullough in his story, the writer had an epiphany while reviewing the single “Killing An … Continue reading 27 January 1979: Stars In Embryo – the first cover story
Having rushed to get the first Cure single released before Christmas on the Small Wonder label, Chris Parry found that he’d missed the end of year deadlines for the weekly music press, meaning that most reviews of the 45 appeared in dribs and drabs into January 1979, with some writers noting it in live reports. … Continue reading 20 January 1979: “Killing An Arab” and the critics
Crying For Yesterday 