The Cure & Wishful Thinking

This is the very first in-depth biography on Robert Smith's entire career and explores nearly thirty years of rock's most enduring and influential figures. Formed as The Easy Cure in 1976 by school friends Robert Smith, Lol Tolhurst and Michael Dempsey, the Cure were on the first post-punk bands to inject pure pop back into post-Pistols rock. Throughout a career filled with paradox and evolution, regular personnel changes within The Cure itself and side-projects including stints with Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Glove, iconic frontman scene around him. In their third decade, The Cure remain relevant and connected, when many of their comtemporaries are reduced to nostalgia packaged and worse. This full-length, extensively researched biography of Smith -one of rock's most important and enduring icons -is the most up-to-date telling of a never-ending story, including an extensive analysis of the 'goth' subculture and its relationship with The Cure.