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Last April we called for all Cure fans, old and new, to get in touch with us. We wanted to know how they first got into The Cure and the beginning of their music love affair. Were they at school? Was it through a relationship? Did they her them on the radio? Or were they flicking through a magazine and liked the look of Robert Smith (or Simon Gallup)?The response we got was phenomenal. Hundreds

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My story begins in 1996, Madrid. I was 14 years old and my older brother had lots of CDs, most of them scattered around his room, full of scratches and without any kind of case. I was looking for something to listen to, tired of Gun's and Roses, Nirvana and other bands that teenagers used to listen to back then. I had started to listen to bands like The Pixies and The Smiths but my music tastes

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My first encounter with The Cure was in 1980, when my father brought 17 Seconds at home, I was very young (5 years old), but my parents have always listened to music, and my father had some very strange tastes. Other albums too found their way home, but I was too young to appreciate them. I heard them from my parents...One week-end, Sunday lunch time, we watched TV (a programm called "L'echo des

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I spent my life trying to fit in. I crumbled to peer group pressure and was your typical top 10 music fan. I never really tried to find the music that "I" truly liked - I just went with what was popular. I have memories of hearing The Cure in my teens, but not being brave enough to stand up and say "that is something I really like".At 19, having split from my boyfriend of over two years I started

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I can't remember exactly how old I was when I got into The Cure, I guess I must have been about 8 years old. I had The Head On The Door album on record and tape and listened to it religiously. That album was my saftey blanket through some very tough times as a child and to this day, no matter what may be happening in the world, if I put it on nothing matters anymore. I adore them. I haven't heard

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The first song I heard was In Between Days when i was 8. I liked it, but I had no idea that the group was The Cure.The years went by and, when I was 11, a friend gave me a tape. It was Standing On A Beach,I really didn’t know what to expect. When I put on my walkman, the first song I listened to was Charlotte Sometimes, then Boys Don’t Cry, then recognized the song I'd heard years before, In

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When I was 8 years old ( now I'm 30), my older brothers were all the way into the punk style... It's 1986, Standing On The Beach is on , A Forest is the next song, suddenly something happens to me, that voice calls me, make me feel different, but i was too young to know what i know now... That beat invade my head and stay there for years, over and over... The years go by, and my musical

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I got into The Cure aged 14 when Catch was in the charts, and they appeared on a UK TV show called The Roxy which I was videoing for footage of A-ha or someone. I then bought Staring at the Sea and watched it obsessively every day for months, got Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me for my birthday in the November (couldn't afford to buy albums myself in those days) and the rest is history. Within a very

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I was given the LP Pornography in 1984 and couldn't take it off the turntable for months...This is a bit personal and naive, but there was this girl I really liked and when she broke up with me i was really distraught for months (I was 17 years old), and I used to listen to A Strange Day for hours on end, feeling really down...At this time i didn't know any other Cure songs...only months later

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I grew up in East Berlin. Rias broadcasted Lullaby and Lovesong in 1989. Time was very exciting, because the "revolution" was taking place, I was 13 and was very into music, especially the soundtrack of Dirty Dancing. I loved those two songs. when the wall came down and I attended school in West Berlin, my new friend Rebecca posessed tapes of the cure, because her uncle had been a big fan. We

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The year was 1991, I was watching an episode of Ed McMahon's "Star Search" tv show. They did a segment called the spokesmodel competition, male and female. During the male model segment, there came from my Cathode Ray Tube TV a sound like I had never heard before. The rolling drums, almost like distant thunder, coupled with a synthesized sound of human voices, ever so faint, but chorus-like,

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I was 17 years old and had just begun my first semester away at college. previously I knew of the Cure, had seen pictures of Robert Smith in music magazines and read some interviews, but had never heard any of the music- I lived in a rural area outside a small town in the bible belt of the American South East, and there were no Cure records to be found and no radio stations that would play them

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I got into The Cure when I was 18 years old. The year was 1991 and I was invited to a going away party. When I arrived at the party my taste in music was nothing even close to The Cure. I was mainly into hair bands and things like that. However as the party was going I noticed this sound coming from the stereo and really liked it. Then another song came on and that was even more catchy. I asked

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In the rainy months of the year where I grew up, the skies would go grey. I grew up outside the city where there were an abundance of farms and washed out riverbeds. I had a babysitter who consistently wore her headphones and trance herself when she came over.One day she had left her cassette player out after she had left, apparently forgotten. I took the cassette player and went for a ride down

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I first got into The Cure due to my mother and step-father, both lifelong fans of The Cure. (My mum's liked them since she was about thirteen, and my step-sister is named after Charlotte Sometimes). I was always picking up CDs that were lying around the house and listening to them, and when I was fourteen I found my mum's copy of Staring at the Sea. And the rest, as they say, is history.... I

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I first heard of The Cure from my older sister. I don't remember exactly how she heard of them. This was probably back in the late 80's. I wasn't quite into music yet, but I would play card games with my sister in her room and The Cure would always be in the background. I remember that I didn't like the band, because of the way my sister started acting. She shaved the back of her head and started

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I recall when my brother (6 years older than myself) brought home with him in the summer of 1987 the Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me vinyl a friend hand lent him to tape... (that's how you did it back then) - immediately the songs grew on me but not all of them. Especially the poppy ones.A few weeks later he brought The Head On The Door album and I kept listening to it through the tape recordings. In

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It was May, 1987. I was playing piano in high school practice room in Wisconsin. A good friend of mine loaned me a cassette with Killing an Arab on it. He said, “Check this out”.They say certain memories we never forget…they call it “flashbulb memory”…the day Elvis died, the day JFK was shot, the day I first heard The Cure.The next month, my dad gave me my first Cure album, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss

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I first got into The Cure in 6th Grade, around age 11 or 12, which was 19 years ago around 1989. My older sister had the first few records and I borrowed Boys Don't Cry from her because I was looking for something to do. I remember thinking that this music sounded so different from everything that was going on back then. I just got sucked in. Seeing as I didn't even have a job yet it took a while

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I've been a fan since '93. I was converted to a die hard fan, literally, overnight. I went from listening to old-school rap and hip hop to The Cure and the rest from there, as they say, is history. This band changed my life forever. (From: Matthew C. Thome - whereabouts: unknown)

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37 and still listening to The Cure everyday... That might be a 25 year old love story, with its ups and downs.(From: Stephane B. Bazan, Luxembourg)

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My first really experience with Cure music was during Summer 1989. I was 16. A friend of mine lent me three Cure albums: The Head on the Door, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, Disintegration. I was especially fond of Kiss me Km Km.Unfortunately I became "a fan" in 1990, so I missed the Prayer Tour :-(Since 1990, The Cure are the band I've liked the most. I saw them in Paris (Wish 92 / Wild Mood Swings 96

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I was 15 and lost lost musically – no clue what genre I liked. I visited my cousin at Villanova on the way to summer break and a roommate loved the cure and we listened to them that weekend.I knew from that moment on this was the music for me and they have been my favorite band to this day.This music eventually allowed me to find the love of my life the next summer and we are now married w/ two

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I got into The Cure about 4 years ago, and I'm only 15 now! I heard the usual single stuff on the radio and thought I'd find out a bit more so the good ole internet served me well and I found they are much more than the poppy stuff we hear on the radio, so much more...What else should I say? :P(From: Aaron - whereabouts: unknown)

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I'm a 35 yr old Male living in Harrisburg, PA (USA). I grew up in England from the age of 3 till I was 18. The first Cure song I heard was All I Want from the Kiss Me album. It grabbed my senses instantly and ever since I started buying a few of the albums. As I went through the different stages in my life I started listening to more and more of The Cure and was attracted mostly to the deeper

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THE ENDIt was May 1984. I was with my adorable Irish girlfriend in a t-shirt store in Berkeley and an incredible song appeared from the PA system. I had to find out what it was. I couldn’t stand listening to radio, but I was desperate to stop burning out my late-’60s music, so I pressed through the first vague answers and ended up at Rasputin Records buying a military-green can with “Survival

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It was 1989 and I was in 6th grade (10 years old) living in Guadalajara Mexico. The song Lovesong was being played on the radio a lot so there is no way you could have missed them during that time. I loved that song so a friend of mine let me borrow the album (Disintegration). I immediately fell in love with the entire album. I would fall asleep playing the album, lights off, stereo next to my

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I properly got into the Cure around the 1990-1991 period when Mixed Up was released. I would've been about 13 years old and still at school. I was already aware of them from their famous hits like The Love Cats and more recently Lullaby (I knew that Lullaby was a striking song when it was released but the video scared me a little when it came out!). I also had a vague recollection of seeing The

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I’ve been into the Cure since 1983. The first time I became aware of them was when the video for The Walk was shown on The Tube TV show. They were from that moment added to my overall “group” of bands that I liked. A few months later when “The Top” came out I was blown away by Shake Dog Shake, the whining feedbacky guitars and pounding drums where awesome; Shake Dog Shake remains in my top five

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I was nine years old when I first heard Robert Smith croon. It was 1991, and the Picture Show VHS cassette was played in heavy rotation at "The Planet," a non-profit children's summer program that I attended, where kids learned to do wood shop, arts and crafts, and kit- built radio controlled cars. I was enrolled at The Planet because it was a young boy's paradise. The Cure was an incidental (but

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It all started one night on the way to a nightclub in the early 80's - I was sitting in the back of a datsun 180b packed in with another 6 friends when I heard the song on the radio - called- A Forest - and that was it for me. I was hooked and I've been a big fan ever since - I love all of the Cure's music -I'm 44yrs old and I cant wait for the next new double Cure album-. The Cure is all I've

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It was the Spring of 1989 when I first really "heard" The Cure. I was 17 and had just emigrated to Canada from my native England. Of course, I was familiar with some of their Top 40 singles like Lovecats but they didn't really do anything for me at the time. They had just released the Fascination Street single and I was blown away by its opening bassline and guitar intro.Later, that summer,

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I was 13 years old when i discovered The Cure in the summer of 1996. At the time I was listening to Britpop trite like Blur and cookie-cutter acts like The Prodigy, i was young and didn't know any better. But one morning I saw the video for Lovesong and I was stunned. The music was like nothing i had ever heard, poppy but with an extremely dark twist. The image of Robert Smith, with his teased

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It was a handful of moments that cumulatively pushed me over the brink into full-on fandom....In 1989, I was mainly a metal-only kinda guy, but was ever so slowly warming up to things like Siouxsie and piL....thing is, I hated stuff that was commercial and I always thought The Cure were some effeminate haircut band, fluffy pop for girls....Then one night I was flipping through the channels on tv

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I became a Cure fan because of a very tragic moment in my life, when I was a senior in High School I was in love with this girl and all she talked about was The Cure. So one day I asked her who The Cure were, she just smiled and said "a very great band". A year after we graduated I lost track of her so one day I decided to get a hold of her, it so happens her aol screen name was cure213.So when I

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The Cure got into my life about 14 years ago, when I heard on a record shop the song Boy's Don't Cry. Something amazing and melancolic trapped me. Later on (I think just in the same week) I heard on the radio Friday I'm in Love. But I was short of money then to buy the records so it wasnt' until I was on College when I begin to buy The Cure record.I was just surpirsed just how can Robert write a

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I got into the cure in High School 1997. I started hangin out with some people who were really into it. I had a trip with them one night and they played The Head On The Door, and that was it, I was hooked. From then on I slowly bought every cd. and pretty much became obsessed with them. The darkness, the mystery, their ability to make you feel 10 moods in one sitting. It was an amazing time for

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I´m 38 Years old/young and looking forward to the new Cure album so much!!!My first contact with The Cure – music was at a party. It was mid-August 1985, I was 15 and at my first party, at my first girlfriend's.I was shocked about the people with black clothes and the white faces and very special shoes!! I'd never seen before people with hair like Robert and the dancing style was very unusual.

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I am a massive Cure fan and have been since 1988 when I was 16. I think my Cure story is quite interesting because I "missed" The Cure a couple of times before I realised they were my band.In the late 80s one of my school friends had a French pal. We lived on the same street so his pen pal stayed for a week in his house. We were all interested as to what he was like. I asked my friend what he did

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When I was a teenager, I had what would turn out to be the best job ever, working at Tower Records. It was such a great place to work with no real dress code and a company that totally promoted individuality and self-expression. I worked on the "video" side of the store with people who would turn out to be close friends for the rest of my life. The great thing about working on the video side was

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I got into The Cure really because of the movie 'The Crow'. I just loved the music in the transformation sequence (Burn). I think I was 16 when the movie came out and I saw it at the cinema with a friend of mine who was 21. He told me it was The Cure that I'd got all fired up about (who I'd had very little exposure to at all before - they just weren't on my radar) and he lent me a copy of Mixed

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A friend of mine needed a drummer for a song he wanted to perform. That song was Just One Kiss. I learned the song and quickly picked up all of the records and singles I could find. That was over 25 years ago and I’m still a fan…(from Terry Lusk, Canada)

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It happened way back in 1980, during a summer sailing camp, in Friesland, The Netherlands.Some of my fellow-campers took a casette-tape (CD's and CD-players were not invented yet) of The Cure with him: The Boys Don't Cry album. Basicaly it played all week and that is when, how and where I was struck by The Cure. That same year I saw the band for the first time live. In Nijmegen, 19-10-1980.After

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I'm 32 years old and I've been into The Cure since I was 15. I remember the very first time I ever heard a Cure song - My high school boyfriend and I were at the local Wendy's and he asked me to listen to Just Like Heaven. I recall not being entirely thrilled with it, but he insisted I borrow Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. I agreed to give it a chance and took it home. It quickly grew on me and in no

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It was DC 1986, and I was 15. An old friend and I had been seeing people in Georgetown with the Cure written on bags, bags with Cure pins on them, and we got curious. Went out and bought the Standing on the Beach cassette, the one with the B sides. Absolutely loved it, started to buy all Cure music we could find!And then lo and behold, they were touring in '86, went with a big group of friends

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Back in High School I was a massive Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix fan. It was all I listened to with the exception of the Beatles who to me are now one of the most over rated bands ever. I ocassionally listened to a local radio station as well to see if anything good was out there. Ha ! not much. But back in the summer of 1987 a song did catch my ear as it was much more melodic and different than

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I'm 34 years old now, and will be attending the Cure show in Dallas in June. That being said, I got into the Cure in 1986. A friend of mine, Shyla, had an older brother who was in college at the time. He was into punk and new wave bands. He would make tapes of bands that he liked for Shyla. Echo & the Bunnymen, Smiths, Siouxsie and of course The Cure. Shyla and I would listen to his tapes over

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In 1987, I was reading a Thrasher Magazine profile on then young pro- skateboarder Tony Hawk. The article mentioned that The Cure was one of Tony's favorite bands. Hawk was one of my heroes then, and I thought "If he likes them, I should definitely check them out."I lived in Virginia at the time and our middle school had it's share of Smiths and U2 fans. Fortunately for me, there was one lone

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The seeds of my love for the Cure were sewn by a good friend, at the time a schoolfriend, called Alex. We were starting up our own 'band' - I say band but in actuality we spent hours of free studio time noodling with synths and guitar, but i digress. We each made a mix tape aiming to show off our influences and the direction we wanted to head in. His was by far the more interesting.90% of the

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My name is Tracy from WA State and here is my story about how I got into The Cure. I was in the 8th grade and a really good friend of mine kept telling me about this band called The Cure, oh and also how much she loved the lead singer Robert Smith. She kept telling me how much I should check them out and how much she'd knew I'd love them. So finally I went out and bought 2 Cure cassette tapes,

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In 1988, a junior in High School, I was listening to some pretty terrible music. I lived in a small town about an hour outside of Las Vegas, with no record stores or radio stations, so Vegas was the only destination. I would listen to KLUC, a pop/top 40 station, enjoying whatever in the world was in the top 40 then. I don't care to remember- the only acts that really come to mind are Taylor Dayne

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I always thought their videos were really interesting when watching MTV during the 80’s and although I liked mainstream hairband shit at the time, I always respected Robert’s uniqueness and thought the songs were great.Then, in 1990, my freshman year in college, a friend gave me a copy of Disintegration, and the first time I listened all the way through, I nearly wept. “This is it!” I though, “

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I'm 16 and from Sydney, Australia. I first got into the Cure when I was 13, my dad would play In Between Days in the car and I loved that song. From there I got into the singles and pretty much fell in love. The first album I bought was Bloodflowers based purely on how amazing the title track was. Ever since the Cure have been my favourite band, they came to Australia last year and I dragged a

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I can honestly say I do not know how I got into the Cure at first, although I was definitely at school in the very late 80’s (I am 34 this year!). It must have been through friends as we were all into alternative music. I remember buying Boys Don’t Cry and being blown away by its simplicity yet its power. Then listening to Disintegration for the first time and being utterly confused by how

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I was 14 when a schoolmate told me I should borrow The Secret Gig from our local library. A few days later, on a sunny day, I was riding my bicycle whilst listening to the tape I had recorded. (walkman...)Well, I can't remember which song I was listening to, I just was amazed by the whole sound of the cd. Soon... I was 'in' it, and I didn't get 'out' of it.So that was the very beginning and it

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I'm 34 and I first heard of the Cure when I was 15. I heard Lullaby on the radio and instantly liked it, I then bought Disintegration and it was a massive change in the way I perceived music. It also perfectly matched with my "teenage angst". I became a fan and started to gather everything about them, and I've been a huge "encyclopedic" fan since then.My relation to The Cure shifted throughout

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I got into the Cure back in 1987 because of an evil entity called MTV. When they used to play their videos I thought they were horrible and would actually turn the channel! One fateful day, there was nothing else on and I was forced to watch the video for Why Can't I Be You?. The song's tune caught my attention and by that weekend I had the Kiss Me album.Um, I don't really think my attitude

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