Smith, however, does everything in his power to avoid the camera's gaze. The music video - back then, the main way fans got to know a band - showed the rest of the band as stoic ciphers. In 1988, with "Just Like Heaven," the band finally found success in the U.S. ![]() Was the Cure goth? New wave? College rock? Smith wasn't going to give any answers. The band's sound matured through the 1980s, with the press unsure how to classify them. Right from the start, the Cure caught your attention with outrageous titles and kept it with catchy riffs and lyrics open to countless interpretations. The first, "Killing an Arab," was both literary and gimmicky the second, "Boys Don't Cry," a cherry bomb of kinetic energy, was a classic. With the band's first two singles, the Cure showed its versatility. The Cure formed in England in 1978 when Smith was still a teenager. We only have the records, music videos, and a North American tour that stops at the Kaseya Center in downtown Miami on July 1. There are no Broadway jukebox musicals based on the Cure's music, nor Bohemian Rhapsody-style bio-pics. While other acts of similar enormous stature have gotten political or become movie stars, the Cure is unique in that the band has grown and remained famous while keeping the focus entirely on the music. Meanwhile, the Cure's frontman Robert Smith might have an iconic image with his red lipstick, pale skin, and black-as-night hair styled in every direction, but we haven't the slightest clue what his conversational voice sounds like. Anyone can easily imagine Bono of U2's Irish-accented speaking voice. Compare them with their closest musical peers, U2, who, like the Cure, popped out of the late-1970s postpunk scene in the British Isles. ![]() For a band that has been playing arenas for three decades and crafting beloved songs for 45 years, we don't know that much about the Cure.
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