As we saw last week, Paul Morley’s vitriolic review of the Three Imaginary Boys album in the NME so incensed The Cure that Robert Smith immediately exercised his right of reply while recording a BBC session on 9 May, the day that the music press hit the stands. The backing track of “Grinding Halt” was … Continue reading 16 May 1979: The lyrics of “Desperate Journalist”
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 