Dempsey and Port Thompson, see an add in the Brithish musical newspaper "Melody Makers".
"Wanna be a recording star?", stating that german record giang Hansa is looking for new bands.
The first name that the guys use for their presentation was "Easy Cure", after being "Obeliske" at Notre Dame middle school and goat band then "Malice" at the St. Wilfrid�s middle school,
they gather in Smit�s parents�dining room with singer Peter O�Toole, where they make a rough tape for Hansa. Whitin a month the band has auditionarted for Hansa and signed 1,000 pounds using the money on equipment, enabling them to play at local Crawley venues like the Rocket.
O�Tool soon quits to joint the band "Kibbuts", leaving Smith to take over the lead vocals.
The band make their visits to London�s SAV studios to record their first demos.
In 1978 Hansa drops the band after they have refused to comply with the label�s request the
record cover versions insteda of their own material Thomson soon quits.
Demsey founds a job in a mental hospital and Tolhurs works in a chemical job, Smith refusing to find a job. They change their name to "The Cure".
1979 With only one single "Killing An Arab", inspired in a passge by Albert Camus�s novel "The Sranger", cause a National Front, they beguin a month residency at London�s Marquee.
Smith set up his own "Dance Fools Dance" Label, his first release was the obtainers "Yeah, Yeah,
Yeah". June 1979 "Three Imaginary Boys", embarks the group on a tour in UK, single debut "Boys don�t Cry", recived excellent reviews. Smith meets "The Banshees" and is invited to suport the
band "Siouxie & The Banshees".
The Cure retome a tour at the end of the seventies, a friction with Smith causes Dempsey to
leave and is replaced on bass by Simon Gallup, afriend of Smith from the band "Lockjaw" and
the keyboard player Mathieu Hartley who play in local band the Magpies; "Jumping Someone
Else�s Train", is well reviewed.
1980: Album debut "17 Seconds", produced by Mike Hedges, reaches UK # 20. Extracted single
"The Forest", compromise the band to made their firts apareance in BBC Top of the Pops.
Their world tour beguins in Holland. After 24 dates for New Zeland, Australacia, Nort America
and Scandinavia. Hartley quits leaving the band continue as a trio.
1981:The Cure provides the instrumental soundtrack to a short film "Carnage Visors", which will
the prelude the band�s own performance on It�s summer "Faith" tour.
"Primary" single contains the cassette version of the soundtrack "Carnage Visors".
"Charlote Somethimes" (The first video that I saw on MTV from the Cure), a singularly innappropiated video directed by Mike Mansfield.
The Cure beguin to work in a new album at the Windmill Studio in Surrey. "Fourteen Explicit Moments". beguins to promote forthcoming album "Pornography" roduced by Phill Thornalley.
Bnd finally breaks the top ten barrier when "Pornography" cames out.
1982: In the tour for Estrasbourg, France, beetween Gallup and Smith (Gallup left the band for 18 months to form the band "The Cry") and will return for "The head On The Door".
Smith is asked to rejoint The Banshees. "Let�s Go To Bed", which Smith dislakes so much he try to release it under the pseudonym "The Recur".
1983: Smith is approched by Nicolas Dixon a choreographer with the Royal Ballet, to write the music "Les Enfants Terribles" after experimenting with Siamesse Twins and accompaying dance sequence on TV BBC Show "Riverside", he shelves the plan.
The Cure no longer oficially together, are offered a slot on BBC TV "The Oxford Roadshow",
Smiths recruits Tolhurst, brilliant�s Andy Anderson on drums & Derek Thompson on bass to
perform 100 years and Figurehead, Smith decides to reform "The Cure".
The Walk produced by Steve Nye, is the group first top 20, Smith records "Like An Animal", with Stevie Severrin of The Banshees, under the name "The Glove".
Low priced compilation "Boys Don�t Cry" feauturing early material, early album "Walk" archives their biggest UK hit "The Love Cats", recorded in Paris.
1984: "Japanesse Whispers", compiling recent hits, "The Cartepillar", makes UK # 14 while the band beguins a UK Tour.
Scheduled to tour with Sioxsie & The Banshees, Smith is forced to pull out suffering from exhaution after the Cure�s own recent stint on the road. (He retreats to Whales and the lake district, only to resurface when the cure plays "The Round Around The Dock".
On tour in the far East, Anderson�s increasingly bizarre behavior comes to head when he attacks the other four members.
Smith fires him, and the band arrives in US to tour but without a drummer, Vince Ely "Psychedelic Furs" fills in for 11 dates.
The band participates in charity concerts for MENCAP at Camden.
1985: Smith paches diferences with Gallup, who is pursuing less than successful career with
Cry and then Fools Dance, and ask him to rejoint.
In Between Days (Whithout You), reaches UK # 15, "The Head On The Door" becoming the band most successful album to date; Close To Me makes UK # 24 completed by a claustrophobic Video
by Tim Pope, their regular visual collaborator.
