⭐️๐น๐ถ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐น๐ป ๐ฑ๐จ๐ด๐ฌ๐บ ๐บ๐ด๐ฐ๐ป๐ฏ is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer, guitarist, primary songwriter, and only continuous member of the rock band ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ (which he founded in 1976 as Easy Cure and renamed into The Cure in 1978). He was also the lead guitarist for the band ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐๐๐ฌ from 1982 to 1984, and part of the short-lived group ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ in 1983. During his career, Robert Smith had a lot of brilliant collaborations with other artists.
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▪️๐น๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐ is known for his guitar-playing style, distinctive voice, and fashion sense, with the latter - a pale complexion, smeared red lipstick, black eye-liner, a dishevelled nest of wiry black hair, and all-black clothes - being highly influential on the goth subculture that rose to prominence in the 1980s.
▪️๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐’s debut album Three Imaginary Boys (1979) placed the band in the post-punk and new wave movements that had sprung up in the UK. Beginning with their second album, Seventeen Seconds (1980), the band adopted a new, increasingly dark and tormented style, which greatly contributed to the emerging of gothic rock as a genre.
After the release of their fourth album Pornography in 1982, Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had acquired and introduced some pop sensibility into The Cure's music. Songs such as "Let's Go to Bed" (1982), "The Love Cats" (1983), "Inbetween Days" (1985), "Close To Me" (1985), "Just Like Heaven" (1987), "Lovesong" (1989), and "Friday I'm in Love" (1992) aided the band in receiving commercial popularity.
▪️๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ have released 13 studio albums, five live albums, 12 compilation albums, 10 EPs, 37 singles, 10 video albums and 43 music videos. The band sold over 30 million albums worldwide.
⭐️Robert Smith was inducted into the ๐น๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐ as a member of The Cure in 2019.
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| Photo credit: Renaud Monfourny |
๐ข๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: Do you feel responsible for the gothic movement and all those ridiculous aspects? I often laugh at this trend, because we have been sometimes reproached of being Goths and that really gets to my nerves. We are not crows!!!
๐ข๐๐จ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ: That’s weird, we’ve never been a gothic band, in the sense that there are no pictures of us with a crucifix or anything else. Instead, we were a band in suits! The Banshees are gothic, in the real meaning of the word. I don’t have any gothic album. I hate The Sisters of Mercy. During the first interview I made for this “Greatest Hits”, the journalist questioned me about that gothic side. I went crazy; “With songs like “Lovecats“, “Let’s Go to Bed“, show me what’s gothic in it, listen to “Friday I’m in Love”! A gothic band wouldn’t do songs like that!”. But anyway, I like the Goths, they’re lovely. If you forget their morbid fantasies, their belief that they’re gonna die if they stay too long under the sun, they can be really funny. Have you ever been in Mexico? The best Goths can be found there. When you see them from the stage, you think they wear Goths clothes; all in black, and when you meet them, you realise they wear shorts of every colour.
(๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ , 2001)
⭐️Brian, as well as the other Placebo members, met Robert Smith in the late 90s and over the years, their relationships have grown to become a sincere friendship full of personal and professional respect.
๐ข๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: “Obviously, I grew up listening to The Cure, and The Smiths, and they were kind of the soundtrack to every rainy afternoon in Central Europe for me as I was a teenager. And going back to listening to this track [Lullaby], I’m continuously blown away by the instrumentation and the orchestration and the way that it’s actually very very sparse, it’s not a great deal that happens. And to me, it’s just highlights something that I’ve really discovered over the years: that often the space between the notes is equally as important as the notes themselves.”
(๐โ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ก๐๐๐, ๐๐น๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ 20, 2013)
For the first time, Placebo and The Cure shared the stage in January 1997, at the great show at ๐ด๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ ๐๐ in New York City at ๐ซ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐'๐ 50๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐.
In October 2004, during the concert dedicated to the 20๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐ฝ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐+, Robert Smith invited Placebo to perform ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฉ together with The Cure.
๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ & ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ - ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฉ, ๐๐๐ง๐๐ฅ+, ๐๐๐๐
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| Screenshot from the Canal+ performance |
๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ & ๐๐จ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ก - ๐๐จ๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ฒ (๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ), ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐, ๐๐๐๐
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๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ & ๐๐จ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ก - ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐'๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐, ๐๐๐๐
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| Screenshot from the performance at Wembley |
On June 16th, 2018, Placebo performed at the 25๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ in London as they were personally invited by invited by Robert Smith, that year event curator. As Brian admitted, it was an honour for them, so Placebo wanted to pay tribute to the legendary band - and their friends! - by covering The Cure’s famous song ๐๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐๐จ ๐๐จ ๐๐๐.
๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ - ๐๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐๐จ ๐๐จ ๐๐๐ (๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ), ๐๐๐ฅ๐ญ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐
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…And let’s wish the happiest of birthdays to Robert!๐
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