The Cure: A Perfect Dream

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A lush pictorial look at one of the worlds most successful alternative rock bands available in time to celebrate their 40th anniversary. Into the chaos of British punk rock a handful of school friends led by Robert Smith announced their musical arrival in 1978 with a brash single pulled from the pages of Albert Camus. The Cure soon graduated into a series of increasingly dark and brooding albums drawing the worlds attention to goth rock. But they resisted categorization and subsequent albumssuffused with raw intense emotion and featuring the breakout hits In Between Days and Just Like Heavenattracted new legions of fans worldwide. Then with the grand and somber Disintegration the Cure achieved global domination and through fluctuating lineups and shifting sounds they have flourished. Veteran music journalist Ian Gittins has interviewed and written about the Cure many times over the decades and brings deep insight to this unofficial retrospective of the group. This essential keepsake tells the story of the Curefrom the angular riffs of Boys Dont Cry and A Forest through the perfect simplicity of Lovesong and Friday Im in Love to headlining some of the worlds biggest music festivalsin beautiful eye-catching color.