The Cure: Part 1 with Hanif Abdurraqib
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The Importance of Getting to the Hard Mind of Robert Smith
At age 11, Robert's big brother took him to the second ever Isle of White festival. He was not able to come out to watch Hendrix play and Jimmy Hendrix did die 18 days later. "He said Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and guitarist before that I wanted to be a footballer"
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