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The Cure: Part 1 with Hanif Abdurraqib

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The Best Single the Cure Ever Written

Robert Smith has said, he said in 1984, I don't know if he would say it to this day, but that he thinks that Charlotte sometimes is the best single the cure ever wrote. They didn't want people to have a preconceived notion of the music based on what they looked like. The audiences in America were not stoked on the faith set list. Lydia lunch and Steve's different. It was an extra harsh when you consider that according to Lydia, she started a long distance relationship with him. She did say the tour was absolutely atrocious; drugs, violence, just darkness all around. Apparently her and Robert had this traveling book that they would send back between each other. That

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