{"product_id":"the-cure-a-perfect-dream","title":"The Cure: A Perfect Dream","description":"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.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44633947373621,"sku":"ByrdShop_145493140X","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_145493140X_b1c0d468-413a-476a-96e3-9cdd85275cac.jpg?v=1754302941","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-cure-a-perfect-dream","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}