Laura Bush has become a breast cancer activist on her mother's behalf through her involvement in the Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Composer Robert Smith has said that the song " was a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in L ' Étranger ( The Stranger ) by Albert Camus " ( Cure News number 11, October 1991 ).

Spin has said " The Cure have always been an either / or sort of band: either [...] Robert Smith is wallowing in gothic sadness or he's licking sticky-sweet cotton-candy pop off his lipstick-stained fingers.

Robert Smith of The Cure has appeared 34 times throughout the countdown's lifetime.

Since its creation in 2006, the Common Reading Experience has examined books including Folding Paper Cranes: An Atomic Memoir ; Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World ; Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother ; Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference ; and The Heart & the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy seal.

Irmin Schmidt, founder of seminal German ' Krautrock ' group Can has written an opera called Gormenghast, based on the novels, and a number of songs including ' Stranger Than Fiction ' and ' Titus ' by New Zealand rock group Split Enz and ' The Drowning Man ' by The Cure were inspired by Peake's work.

Jackson noted his enthusiasm for real ale in his autobiography, A Cure For Gravity, published in 1999, which Jackson has described as a " book about music, thinly disguised as a memoir ".

* Le remède de fortune (" The Cure of Ill Fortune ") ( c. 1340s, before 1357 ) – The narrator is asked by his lady if the poem she has found is by him ; the narrator flees from her and comes to a garden where " Hope " consoles him and teaches him how to be a good lover ; he returns to his lady.

Since then he has written and recorded with a wide range of artists, from Andreas Scholl in the classical world, to Beck, Pink, The Cure, Kraftwerk ( a project with Ralf Hütter ),

He has also published a book on meditation ; The Way of Silence and the Talking Cure ; and Songs of Enlightenment on the interpretation of the great books of the West as expressions of " the inner journey " and variations on the " tale of the hero ".

Lollapalooza has featured a diverse range of bands and has helped expose and popularize artists such as Beastie Boys, Coldplay, Stone Temple Pilots, Depeche Mode, Deadmau5, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, The Cure, Primus, The Killers, Rage Against the Machine, Arcade Fire, Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction, X Japan, Audioslave, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Smashing Pumpkins, Muse, Alice in Chains, Björk, MGMT, Foster the People, Tool, Hole, Body Count, Ice-T, Queens of the Stone Age, The Drums, The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Calvin Harris, Thenewno2, Fishbone, Butthole Surfers and Lady Gaga.

The UK was one of the two main countries in the development of rock music, and has provided global acts including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd, Queen, Elton John, David Bowie, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, The Kinks, Yardbirds, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, Bee Gees, Rod Stewart, The Animals, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Motörhead, Phil Collins, Duran Duran, Billy Idol, ELO, The Hollies, Sting, Annie Lennox, George Michael, Genesis, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Police, UB40, Ozzy Osbourne, The Smiths, Joy Division, Foreigner, Elvis Costello, Dusty Springfield, Status Quo, Cat Stevens, Judas Priest, Bonnie Tyler, Pet Shop Boys, Joe Cocker, T. Rex, Depeche Mode, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Roxy Music, The Jam, Rainbow, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Seal, Eurythmics, Free, King Crimson, Moody Blues, The Troggs, Steve Winwood, Robert Palmer, Cream, The Foundations, Herman's Hermits, Procol Harum, Yes, The Pretenders, Simple Minds, Marillion, Nazareth, The Sweet, Human League, Supertramp, Tears for Fears, New Order, Bad Company, Brian Johnson, The Stone Roses, Pulp, Suede, Manic Street Preachers, Travis, Oasis and Blur.

The band has performed live covers of Elliott Smith, David Bowie, Camper Van Beethoven, The Cure, Captain Beefheart, Caustic Resin, Cheap Trick, The Clash, Brian Eno, Vince Guaraldi, The Gladiators, M. I. A., Macy Gray, Elton John, George Harrison, Skip James, Daniel Johnston, John Lennon, Love as Laughter, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Heavenly, Steve Miller, Grateful Dead, Cat Stevens, Modest Mouse, Ozzy Osbourne, The Smiths, The Strokes, Talking Heads, The Velvet Underground, and Neil Young.

The wide-ranging nature of their material has led critics to liken their sound to a variety of groups, from The Cure and Joy Division to the Pixies and Arcade Fire.

His work has been influenced by electro artists like Kraftwerk, New Wave artists such as The Cure and Depeche Mode, as well as the French rave scene of the early 1990s.

She has run in the annual Race for the Cure, and in 1999 was the spokesperson for Lee National Denim Day, which raises millions of dollars for breast cancer research and education.

As a private concert venue, it has hosted such acts as Aerosmith, Robbie Williams, The Cure and Shakira.

Everett has used everything from a toy piano in his early " Symphony for a Toy Piano in G Minor " to hammers on a radiator as percussion in 1998's " Cancer for the Cure ".

Everett's music has also been featured on a number of films, including American Beauty (" Cancer for the Cure "), Road Trip (" Mr. E's Beautiful Blues "), Holes (" Eyes Down ," " Mighty Fine Blues "), Shrek (" My Beloved Monster "), Shrek 2 (" I Need Some Sleep "), Shrek The Third (" Royal Pain " and " Losing Streak "), Shrek the Halls (" The Stars Shine in the Sky Tonight "), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (" Beautiful Freak "), The Big White ( Last Stop ; This Town ) Hot Fuzz (" Souljacker, pt. 1 "), as well as most of the music in Yes Man.

* During the season 7 episode of Smallville called " Cure ", the character of Dr. Curtis Knox ( portrayed by Dean Cain ) is an immortal who has lived for centuries under various names, and has actually been historical figures such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Jack the Ripper, as well as being an apparent member of the Nazi party.

If there were any suspicion that the opposition to him was quite other than political, it would be set at rest by the testimony of Dr Andrew Brown, who went from Scotland to inquire into Sydenham's practice and has incidentally revealed what was commonly thought of it at the time, in his Vindicatory Schedule concerning the New Cure of Fevers.

" Killing an Arab " has been covered by Frodus on the 1995 Radiopaque compilation Give Me The Cure, and again in 2004 by DJ Riton.

Fans of the band regard Half Life Half Death as " The Cure of the Philippines ," chiefly because of their strong and honest reference to their New Wave roots and certainly for the uncompromising Curesque style of their vocalist, whose sense of fashion virtually never changed from day one through the band's demise in 2003.

ISBN 0-86547-590-3 ( trade paperback )— A voluminous, if somewhat patchy, chronological / aesthetic history of Gothic covering the spectrum from Gothic architecture to The Cure.

The first known written recipe for a dish of the name ( as ' hagese '), made with offal and herbs, is in the verse cookbook Liber Cure Cocorum dating from around 1430 in Lancashire, North West England.

Smoothing the edges of their style in the direction of New Wave, several post-punk bands such as New Order ( descended from Joy Division ), The Cure, and U2 crossed over to a mainstream U. S. audience.

The " Graecarum Affectionum Curatio " or Cure of the Greek Maladies or Knowledge of the Gospel Truth from the Greek Philosophy, of twelve discourses, was an attempt to prove the truth of Christianity from Greek philosophy and in contrast with the pagan ideas and practises.

The new record contains 14 songs, including " Closer " and " Safe to Land " from the Closer EP, and is influenced by 80s music, specifically Tears For Fears and The Cure.

" Thompson was dropped from the band in May, and the remaining trio ( Smith / Tolhurst / Dempsey ) were soon renamed The Cure by Smith.

Dempsey joined the Associates, while Simon Gallup ( bass ) and Matthieu Hartley ( keyboards ) from The Magspies joined The Cure.

With Gallup's departure from The Cure and with Smith's work with Siouxsie and the Banshees, rumours spread that The Cure had broken up.

Another soundtrack appearance occurred with the song “ Watching Me Fall ” ( from the 11th The Cure ´ s album: Bloodflowers ), a remixed version by Underdog ( of Massive Attack ) for the 2000 American cult movie American Psycho.

The article summarised that " without a label, or any suitable outlet for songs recorded that they feel they cannot move on from without releasing, The Cure in recorded guise are, to an extent, in limbo.

" Subsequent media reports quoting directly from the same article suggested that The Cure had ruled out recording any new material altogether.

Smith said in 1992, " I think when people talk about the ' Cure sound ,' they mean songs based on 6-string bass, acoustic guitar, and my voice, plus the string sound from the Solina.

In Season 2, Episode 23 – " The Cure ", an NSA agent from the future traveled far back in time to stop a doctor from developing a cancer cure.

* " The Kiss ", a song by The Cure from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Their B Sides & Rarities compilation includes cover songs from favorite artists, ranging from metal, hard rock ( Lynyrd Skynyrd ) and post-hardcore ( Helmet and Jawbox ), to gothic rock, art rock and new wave ( Duran Duran, Cocteau Twins and The Cure ), R & B ( Sade Adu ) and hip hop ( a collaboration with B-Real of Cypress Hill ).

A blurred photo of the Abbey is on the cover of Faith by The Cure, an album from 1981.

Moreno's influences include such bands as The Cure, Bad Brains, The Smiths, My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Duran Duran, The Smashing Pumpkins, Depeche Mode, Helmet, Jawbox, Faith No More, Hum, Kool Keith, Alice in Chains, Tool, Jane's Addiction and Weezer, and claims that Deftones ' 2006 album, Saturday Night Wrist, is more of a compromise between all of the members ' influences, ranging from their brutal and brooding heavy signature seen on Adrenaline and Around the Fur to the more experimental sound heard on White Pony and Deftones.

He published " American Neutrality, Its Cause and Cure " ( 1916 ) for the purpose, and when in 1916 he survived a German torpedo attack on the " Sussex " in the English channel-on the return trip from a visit to William Osler at Oxford-his open telegram to the President of the United States on the affair became frontpage news ( New York 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.

I think there are various Cure sounds from different periods and different line-ups.