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Smith's secondary school St. Wilfrid's was reportedly much stricter than Notre Dame.

In the summer of 1975, Robert Smith and his bandmates sat their O Level exams, but only he and Michael Dempsey stayed on to attend sixth form at St. Wilfrid's between 1976 and 1977.

Smith has claimed that he was expelled from St. Wilfrid's as an " undesirable influence " after Malice's second live performance shortly before Christmas 1976, which took place at the school and allegedly caused a riot.

" I got taken back 1977 but they never acknowledged that I was there I did three ' A ' levels – failed biology miserably, scraped through French and got a ' B ' in English.

Then I spent 8 or 9 months on social security until they stopped my money, so I thought ' now's the time to make a demo and see what people think '.

" According to Dave Bowler and Bryan Dray's biography of The Cure, the school also expelled ex-Malice co-founder Marc Ceccagno along with Smith, whose new band Amulet had also played the December school show.

Again, Smith has given conflicting stories concerning his alleged expulsion: elsewhere saying that he was merely suspended, and that it was because he didn't get along with the school headmaster, and on another occasion claiming that he was suspended " because my attitude towards religion was considered wrong.

I thought that was incredible.