Due to the band's lack of creative control on the first album, Smith exerted a greater influence on the recording of The Cure's second album Seventeen Seconds, which he co-produced with Mike Hedges.

On January 13, 2010, Smith announced on The Cure's website that they were working on the follow-up to 4: 13 Dream and an iTunes exclusive release.

" Pope would go on to direct the majority of The Cure's videos, and his videos, which became synonymous with the band, helped expand The Cure's audience during the 1980s.

His face and appearance is based on his creator Neil Gaiman in his twenties and The Cure's frontman Robert Smith.

" Jeff Apter maintains that the guitar Smith received for Christmas of 1972 was from his parents, and equates this item with Smith's notorious Woolworth's ' Top 20 ' guitar, later used on many of The Cure's earliest recordings.

From the late 1970s and into the 1980s, Smith composed some of The Cure's songs on a Hammond organ with a built-in tape recorder, including a complete demo of the song " 10: 15 Saturday Night ".

The major shift from math rock to electronica and dance music in the album is believed to be partially due to The Cure's influence after the two toured on The Cure's 2009 tour.

In addition to " I Feel Fine ", feedback was used on the introduction to songs including Jimi Hendrix's " Foxey Lady ", the Beatles's " It's All Too Much ", Hendrix's " Crosstown Traffic ", the Strokes's " New York City Cops ", Ben Folds Five's " Fair ", Midnight Juggernauts's " Road To Recovery ", Nirvana's " Radio Friendly Unit Shifter ", Jesus And Mary Chain's " Tumbledown " and " Catchfire ", Stone Roses's " Waterfall ", Porno for Pyros's " Tahitian Moon ", Tool's " Stinkfist ", and the Cure's " Prayer For Rain ".

That same year, they played a one-night-only gig at Wembley Arena in which Robert Smith of The Cure made a guest appearance on two tracks, " Without You I'm Nothing " and a cover of The Cure's " Boys Don't Cry ".

The band covered The Cure's song " Primary " for the charity album Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to the Cure, released in 2008 on Manimal Vinyl Records, with profits going to Invisible Children, Inc .; the band also contributed to the Love and Rockets tribute album, No New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets, in the same year, covering the song " Inside the Outside ".

In the US, The Cure's first compilation of singles, Standing on a Beach ( 1986 ), was packaged with a sticker advising against racist usage of the song.

This song lends two of its lines to the titles of one of The Cure's compilation albums, Standing on a Beach, and to its CD / video counterpart Staring at the Sea.

* " Trust ", a song on The Cure's 1992 album Wish

The format ended on Friday, July 20 at 7 p. m. ( with the last song being The Cure's " Let's Go to Bed ", which was also the station's first song ).

On Guestroom, the band moves easily between decades and countries, jumping from 80 ’ s classics like The Cure's " Let's Go to Bed " and the House Of Love's " I Don't Know Why I Love You " to Steely Dan's " Only a Fool Would Say That " and then over to Serge Gainsbourg's " L ' Anamour " ( which previously could be found as a b-side on " I've Got a Feeling " single ); from The Ronettes ' early 1960s classic " Be My Baby " to Papas Fritas ' late 1990s gem " Say Goodbye ".

In June 1982 Robert Smith was on the verge of breakdown, drained from production of The Cure's bleakest album, 1982's Pornography, its tour, substance abuse and band infighting, that led to the departure of bassist Simon Gallup.

Upon returning to the UK, the band contributed a cover of The Cure's " Lullaby " to the Radio 1 Established 1967 compilation, which was released on 1 October 2007.

The conservatory appeared ( as Heaven ) in the original 1967 Dudley Moore-Peter Cook version of Bedazzled, having already featured prominently in John Boorman's first feature film Catch Us If You Can ( film ) ( 1965, ostensibly a vehicle for the Dave Clark Five ), was shown in a dream sequence in Meera Syal's 1993 film Bhaji on the Beach, and was also the setting for the music video to The Cure's 1984 single " The Caterpillar ", directed by Tim Pope.

In early May 2007 Seafood announced, via their website, that they would be releasing covers of The Cure's " Lovesong " and Townes Van Zandt's " I'll be Here in the Morning " as a double A-side download-only single on June 11 to accompany their May / June UK tour.

Following the departure of drummer Boris Williams, Price played on Mint Car, Trap and Treasure on the Cure's Wild Mood Swings album.

After reading an e-mail posted to a mailing list digest complaining of Earth Cure's policy in 1999, Arudou led a multinational group of 17 people of various nationalities ( United States, Chinese, German, Japanese ) to enter the bathhouse.

In 2008, Leto also remixed " The Only One " for The Cure's extended play Hypnagogic States.

* Beachy Head was also the setting for The Cure's Just Like Heaven and Close To Me videos.

The band's first UK singles chart placing came in 1989 with their cover of The Cure's " Just Like Heaven ".

The Wedding Present also covered The Cure's " High " for American Laundromat Records tribute " Just Like Heaven-a tribute to The Cure ".

In 2008, Donelly teamed up with Dylan in the Movies to cover The Cure's " Lovecats " for American Laundromat Records tribute compilation " Just Like Heaven-a tribute to The Cure ".

In 2008, Devics covered The Cure's " Catch " for the American Laundromat Records produced compilation " Just Like Heaven-a tribute to The Cure ".

Galore contained all of the Cure's singles released between 1987 and 1997, as well as the new single " Wrong Number ", which featured longtime David Bowie guitarist Reeves Gabrels.

He has said that his early songwriting " was influenced by early Beatles-the sense of a three-minute guitar-pop song ", and early in his career The Cure's second single Boys Don't Cry was compared by British music paper Record Mirror to " John Lennon at 12 or 13 ".

As Smith walks into the sunset, a version of The Cure's " Lovesong ", featured on Disintegration, is played on the Japanese Lute ( Biwa ).

Robert Smith has described how, though not a Wire fan, seeing the group live influenced The Cure's sound after their first album.

Both Malice and Easy Cure auditioned several vocalists before Smith finally assumed the role of Easy Cure's frontman in September 1977.

The Cure's third single " Jumping Someone Else's Train " was released in early October 1979.

The album was a departure from The Cure's sound up to that point, with Hedges describing it as " morose, atmospheric, very different to Three Imaginary Boys.

In 1982, The Cure recorded and released Pornography, the third and final album of an " oppressively dispirited " trio that cemented the Cure's stature as purveyors of the emerging gothic rock genre.

Released in late 1984, The Cure's first live album, Concert consisted of performances from this tour.

In February 1989, Tolhurst's exit was made official and announced to the press ; this resulted in Roger O ' Donnell becoming a full-fledged member of the band and left Smith as The Cure's only remaining founder member.

In the years between the release of Wish and the start of sessions for The Cure's next album, the band's line-up shifted again.

The Cure's primary musical traits have been listed as " dominant, melodic bass lines ; whiny, strangulated vocals ; and a lyric obsession with existential, almost literary despair.

The Cure's gloomy image has been the subject of parody at times.

Along with the Banshees, early Cure gigs from 1978-1979 supporting post-punk bands such as Wire and Joy Division also influenced Robert Smith's shift in musical direction from The Cure's 1979 album Three Imaginary Boys to 1980's sophomore effort Seventeen Seconds.

The Obelisk featured Robert Smith ( still playing piano at this point ), alongside Marc Ceccagno ( lead guitar ), Michael Dempsey ( guitar ), Alan Hill ( bass ) and Laurence Tolhurst ( percussion ) and, according to The Cure's official biography Ten Imaginary Years, gave their only performance at a school function in April 1972.

Following the release of First and Last and Always, produced by David M. Allen ( producer of albums such as The Cure's Disintegration, but not to be confused with the bass player of Gang of Four — also a record producer ), Marx split from the band in the middle of a supporting tour, citing inability to continue working with Eldritch.

On July 27, 2010, the band covered The Cure's In Between Days for AV Club Undercover.