AND THIS IS HOW IT ALL STARTED
Robert Smith and Laurence Tolhurst first
met on a school bus in September the 17th 1964, but they didn´t say
hello to each other until May 1972. Robert: " I got my first electric
guitar in December 1972 when i was attending the Notre Dame Middle School,
an experimental school whose methods of teaching 11- 13 year olds was thought
to be revolutionary; very free-thinking, and i liked it. If you were crafty
enough, you could convince the teachers you were special: i did virtually
nothing for 3 years. But it was at heart a Catholic school, so there was
still a certain amount of religious education. This forced me to skip lessons
and, with Lol, Michael ( Dempsey ) and a few others, go to the music room
where, using the school´s odd mixture of kettle drums, Spanish guitars,
vibes and the like, we learned to play weird versions of various contemporary
songs, and throwing some strange semi-religous words on top, we created
a uniquely awful new form of music. Lol: " Logically, we should have
gone to University, our brothers had gone. But, just then, punk arrived
and we turned down University. I went to work in a pharmaceutical lab and
we started rehearsing again at Robert´s house. "
More will be addes shortly !!
MEMBERS OF THE CURE:
Michael Stephen Dempsey
Born: 29/11/58 Salisbury Southern Rhodesia
( now Harare Zimbabwe )
Matthieu Aiden Hartley
Born: 4/2/60 Smallfield Surrey, England
Clifford Leon Anderson
Born: 30/1/51 West Ham Hospital London
Philip Carden Thornalley
Born: 5/1/60 Warlington, Mildenhall, Suffolk,
England
Boris Peter Branby-Williams
Born: 24/4/57 Versailles France
Paul Stephen Thompson
Born: 8/11/57 Wimbledon London, England
Simon Jonothan Gallup
Born: 1/6/60 Duxhurst Surrey, England
Robert James Smith
Born: 21/4/59 Blackpool Lancashire, England
Laurence Anrew Tolhurst
Born: 3/2/59 Horley Surrey, England
John Christopher Parry
Born: 7/1/49 Lower Hutt New Zealand