The Cure

The Cure

The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member...

 are known for having constant member changes. The following is a list of the lineups in The Cure's history, including guest singers, side projects, and session musicians.

Band members

Current members

• Robert Smith
  Robert Smith (musician)
  Robert James Smith is an English musician. He is the lead singer, guitar player and principal songwriter of the rock band The Cure, and its only constant member since its founding in 1976...
  
   – vocals, guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
   (1976–present)
• Simon Gallup
  Simon Gallup
  Simon Jonathon Gallup is an English musician and bassist of the post-punk band The Cure.-Early years:...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   (1979–1982, 1985–present)
• Roger O'Donnell
  Roger O'Donnell
  Roger O'Donnell is an English keyboardist best known for his work with The Cure. O'Donnell has also performed in the Psychedelic Furs, the Thompson Twins and Berlin, as well as having an active solo career.- Background :...
  
   – keyboards
  Electronic keyboard
  An electronic keyboard is an electronic or digital keyboard instrument.The major components of a typical modern electronic keyboard are:...
  
   (1987–1990, 1995–2005, 2011–present)
• Jason Cooper – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
   (1995–present)

Former members

• Porl Thompson
  Porl Thompson
  Porl Thompson is an English musician best known for his work with The Cure.-Life and work:Thompson is the oldest of four children; he has two brothers and one sister...
  
   – guitar (1976–1978, 1984–1992, 2005–2010)
• Michael Dempsey
  Michael Dempsey
  Michael Dempsey is a bassist from England, who has performed as a member of several post-punk and New Wave bands including The Cure and Associates.-Early years:...
  
   – bass (1976–1979)
• Lol Tolhurst – drums (1976–1982, 2011), keyboards (1981–1988, 2011)
• Matthieu Hartley
  Matthieu Hartley
  Matthieu Hartley is an English musician born in Smallfield, England. He is best known as the original keyboardist for The Cure, but before that he and Simon Gallup were involved in two other bands called Lockjaw and The Magazine Spies....
  
   – keyboards (1979–1980)
• Andy Anderson – drums (1983–1984)
• Phil Thornalley
  Phil Thornalley
  Phil Thornalley is a songwriter-producer who has worked in the music industry since 1978. He is perhaps best known for co-writing the song "Torn" which Natalie Imbruglia later covered to great success for her 1997 debut album, Left of the Middle...
  
   – bass (1983–1985)
• Boris Williams
  Boris Williams
  Boris Peter Bransby-Williams is an English drummer best known for his extensive work with The Cure . He had previously worked with various artists, including Thompson Twins, Kim Wilde, Strawberry Switchblade and Tomato City...
  
   – drums (1984–1994, 2001)
• Perry Bamonte
  Perry Bamonte
  Perry Archangelo Bamonte is an Anglo-Italian musician best known for his work with The Cure.-Life and work:...
  
   – keyboards (1990–1994), guitar (1995–2005)

Note: This page only reflects each member's "official role" within the band. Members would regularly play many different instruments when recording.

Timeline

Whilst The Cure's second guitarist is ostensibly the lead guitar

Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

ist, they do in fact share lead duties with Smith.

Early bands

Band name & dates	Members & instruments	Notes
Malice Jan '76–Apr '76	Robert Smith Robert Smith (musician) Robert James Smith is an English musician. He is the lead singer, guitar player and principal songwriter of the rock band The Cure, and its only constant member since its founding in 1976...  – guitar Electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker... Michael Dempsey Michael Dempsey Michael Dempsey is a bassist from England, who has performed as a member of several post-punk and New Wave bands including The Cure and Associates.-Early years:...  – bass Bass guitar The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick.... Mark Ceccagno – lead guitar "Graham" – drums Drum kit A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person .... "Graham's brother" – vocals	The full names of "Graham" and his brother were not documented by the band.
Malice Apr '76–Jan '77	Robert Smith – guitar Michael Dempsey – bass Porl Thompson Porl Thompson Porl Thompson is an English musician best known for his work with The Cure.-Life and work:Thompson is the oldest of four children; he has two brothers and one sister...  – lead guitar Lol Tolhurst – drums Martin Creasy – vocals	It was after Creasy left that the band changed their name to "Easy Cure".
Easy Cure Easy Cure Easy Cure were a British punk rock and post-punk band from Crawley, Sussex formed during the late '70s by former members of Malice. Easy Cure went on to fame when, after several lineup changes, they became The Cure.-History:... Jan '77–Sep '77	Robert Smith – guitar Michael Dempsey – bass Porl Thompson – lead guitar Lol Tolhurst – drums "Gary X" – vocals Peter O'Toole – vocals	The member known only as "Gary X" was the band's vocalist for a brief period in March 1977, before being replaced by O'Toole in April.
Easy Cure Sep '77–Apr '78	Robert Smith – vocals, guitar Michael Dempsey – bass Porl Thompson – lead guitar Lol Tolhurst – drums	It was after O'Toole left the band that Smith took up vocal duties for the first time.

Porl Thompson was dropped from the lineup in April, 1978, because his lead guitar style was at odds with Smith's growing preference for minimalist songwriting. This is when the band changed their name to The Cure.

The Cure

Dates & recordings	Members & prominent instruments	Notes
1978–1979 Three Imaginary Boys Three Imaginary Boys The album included an uncredited, final instrumental track informally called "The Weedy Burton". The fact was not acknowledged until the Deluxe Edition re-issue.-2004 Deluxe Edition:...	Robert Smith Robert Smith (musician) Robert James Smith is an English musician. He is the lead singer, guitar player and principal songwriter of the rock band The Cure, and its only constant member since its founding in 1976...  – vocals, guitar Electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker... Michael Dempsey Michael Dempsey Michael Dempsey is a bassist from England, who has performed as a member of several post-punk and New Wave bands including The Cure and Associates.-Early years:...  – bass Bass guitar The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick.... Lol Tolhurst – drums Drum kit A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....	Dempsey provides vocals for the album track "Foxy Lady".
1979–1980 Seventeen Seconds Seventeen Seconds Seventeen Seconds is the second studio album by The Cure, released in April 1980 by Fiction Records. It is the only Cure album to feature keyboardist Matthieu Hartley, and was featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. The album reached number 20 on the British album charts...	Robert Smith – vocals, guitar Lol Tolhurst – drums Simon Gallup Simon Gallup Simon Jonathon Gallup is an English musician and bassist of the post-punk band The Cure.-Early years:...  – bass Matthieu Hartley Matthieu Hartley Matthieu Hartley is an English musician born in Smallfield, England. He is best known as the original keyboardist for The Cure, but before that he and Simon Gallup were involved in two other bands called Lockjaw and The Magazine Spies....  – keyboards Electronic keyboard An electronic keyboard is an electronic or digital keyboard instrument.The major components of a typical modern electronic keyboard are:...
1980–1982 Faith Faith (The Cure album) Faith is the third album by British band The Cure, released in April 1981.- Overview :Faith is generally a brooding, atmospheric, and sombre album, although it has a flash of anger in the form of the song "Doubt", and some edge in the driving single "Primary"...  and Pornography Pornography (album) NME reviewer Dave Hill wrote, "This record portrays and parades its currency of exposed futility and naked fear with so few distractions or adornments, and so little sense of shame...	Robert Smith – vocals, guitar, keyboards Lol Tolhurst – drums Simon Gallup – bass
1982–1983 Japanese Whispers Japanese Whispers Japanese Whispers: The Cure Singles Nov 82:Nov 83 is a compilation album by British rock group The Cure. It was released in late 1983 by their record company, Fiction Records....	Robert Smith – vocals, guitar, keyboards Lol Tolhurst – keyboards, drum machine Drum machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums or other percussion instruments. They are used in a variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music... Phil Thornalley Phil Thornalley Phil Thornalley is a songwriter-producer who has worked in the music industry since 1978. He is perhaps best known for co-writing the song "Torn" which Natalie Imbruglia later covered to great success for her 1997 debut album, Left of the Middle...  – bass on "The Lovecats The Lovecats "The Love Cats" is a 1983 single by The Cure. It was the band's first Top 10 hit in the UK, peaking at number seven, and also hit number six in Australia. It later appeared on the compilation album Japanese Whispers.... " Andy Anderson – drums on "The Lovecats"
1984 The Top The Top (album) The Top is the fifth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1984.-Overview:The Top was the studio album to follow Pornography. After Pornography, Robert Smith found himself without his friend Simon Gallup, who departed the band due to a fight.Smith then took a radical shift in his music...	Robert Smith – vocals, multiple instruments Lol Tolhurst – multiple instruments Andy Anderson – drums, percussion	Porl Thompson Porl Thompson Porl Thompson is an English musician best known for his work with The Cure.-Life and work:Thompson is the oldest of four children; he has two brothers and one sister...  guested on The Top, playing saxophone Saxophone The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846... . This instigated his rejoining the band as lead guitarist.
1984 Concert Concert (album) Concert: The Cure Live is the first live album of English rock band The Cure. It was recorded in 1984 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London and in Oxford...  and Live in Japan The Cure Live in Japan The Cure Live In Japan was a Japan only VHS and Betamax release of The Cure performing live at the Nakano Sun Plaza in Tokyo October 17, 1984.-Track listing:# Shake Dog Shake# Play For Today# Primary# Wailing Wall# The Empty World# The Hanging Garden...	Robert Smith – vocals, guitar Porl Thompson – guitar, keyboards Lol Tolhurst – keyboards Phil Thornalley – bass Andy Anderson – drums
1984–1987 The Head on the Door The Head on the Door The Head on the Door is the sixth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1985. The album is the first to feature drummer Boris Williams, it also features the return of Simon Gallup and is Porl Thompson's first album as an official member.... , The Cure in Orange The Cure in Orange The Cure in Orange is a concert film by British rock group The Cure. It is viewed as being as an essential document of the Cure at their mid-late 1980's peak by fans of the group.-Plot Description:...  and Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the seventh studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure. Released in 1987, this album helped put The Cure into the American mainstream, becoming their first album to reach the Billboard Top 40.-History:...	Robert Smith – vocals, guitar Porl Thompson – guitar, keyboards Lol Tolhurst – keyboards Simon Gallup – bass Boris Williams Boris Williams Boris Peter Bransby-Williams is an English drummer best known for his extensive work with The Cure . He had previously worked with various artists, including Thompson Twins, Kim Wilde, Strawberry Switchblade and Tomato City...  – drums
1987–1988	Robert Smith – vocals, guitar Porl Thompson – guitar Lol Tolhurst – keyboards Simon Gallup – bass Boris Williams – drums Roger O'Donnell Roger O'Donnell Roger O'Donnell is an English keyboardist best known for his work with The Cure. O'Donnell has also performed in the Psychedelic Furs, the Thompson Twins and Berlin, as well as having an active solo career.- Background :...  – keyboards	O'Donnell at this point had effectively replaced Tolhurst.
1989 Disintegration and Entreat Entreat Entreat is a live album by The Cure, recorded at London's Wembley Arena in July 1989. It consists entirely of songs performed from the band's 1989 record Disintegration; while they were on their international Prayer Tour. Entreat was distributed exclusively in France as a promotional tool...	Robert Smith – vocals, guitar Porl Thompson – guitar Simon Gallup – bass Boris Williams – drums Roger O'Donnell – keyboards	Lol Tolhurst is listed as an official sixth group member on Disintegration, credited with playing "Other instrument". However, it was later revealed he had little part in the writing, recording or performance of the album.
1990 Mixed Up	Robert Smith – vocals, guitar Porl Thompson – guitar Simon Gallup – bass Boris Williams – drums
1990–1993 Wish, Paris Paris (The Cure album) Paris is a live album recorded by The Cure at Le Zénith de Paris, in October 1992 during their Wish tour, but released in 1993.Paris was released at the same time as Show, which was recorded in the United States. The album features more cult classics like "The Figurehead" and "One Hundred Years"...  and Show	Robert Smith – vocals, guitar Porl Thompson – guitar Simon Gallup – bass Boris Williams – drums Perry Bamonte Perry Bamonte Perry Archangelo Bamonte is an Anglo-Italian musician best known for his work with The Cure.-Life and work:...  – keyboards, guitar
1994 "Purple Haze Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix is a 1993 album recorded by various artists in tribute to Jimi Hendrix. The artists were drawn from many genres of popular music. Contributors include his classic rock contemporaries Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, blues man Buddy Guy, classical violinist Nigel... " and "Burn The Crow (album) The soundtrack to the movie The Crow was released in 1994. Its biggest hit song was "Big Empty" by the Stone Temple Pilots, which was also on their album Purple.-Album information:... "	Robert Smith – vocals, guitar Simon Gallup – bass Boris Williams – drums Perry Bamonte – keyboards, guitar
1994 "This is a Lie Wild Mood Swings Wild Mood Swings is the tenth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1996 .-History:After Wish, it seemed The Cure was on the brink of being disbanded due to the departure of Porl Thompson and Boris Williams. Simon Gallup was also forced to take a vacation due to health problems, which... "	Robert Smith – vocals, multiple instruments Perry Bamonte – multiple instruments	According to interviews, this was the lineup when Williams had left the band and Gallup was on a temporary vacation.
1995–2005 Wild Mood Swings Wild Mood Swings Wild Mood Swings is the tenth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1996 .-History:After Wish, it seemed The Cure was on the brink of being disbanded due to the departure of Porl Thompson and Boris Williams. Simon Gallup was also forced to take a vacation due to health problems, which... , Bloodflowers Bloodflowers Bloodflowers is the eleventh album by English band The Cure, released in 2000. The album is seen as a sombre return to form by critics and fans alike... , Trilogy The Cure: Trilogy The Cure: Trilogy is a double live album video by The Cure, released on two double layer DVD-9 discs, and later on a single Blu-Ray disc...  and The Cure	Robert Smith – vocals, guitar Simon Gallup – bass Roger O'Donnell – keyboards Perry Bamonte – guitar Jason Cooper – drums	Boris Williams joined the band in 2001 for a one-off acoustic performance to commemorate the Greatest Hits Greatest Hits (The Cure album) Greatest Hits is a 2001 compilation album by The Cure. The band's relationship with longtime label Fiction Records came to a close, and The Cure were obliged to release one final album for the label. Robert Smith agreed to release a greatest hits album under the condition that he could choose the...  compilation.
2005 "Love"	Robert Smith – vocals, guitar Simon Gallup – bass Jason Cooper – drums	Short period of time following the firing of O'Donnell and Bamonte. The band filmed a few performances for LAUNCH LAUNCHcast Yahoo! Music Radio is an Internet radio service offered by CBS Radio through Yahoo! Music. The service, formerly offered by LAUNCH Media, and originally developed by Todd Beaupré and Jeff Boulter, debuted on November 11, 1999, and was purchased by Yahoo! in October, 2001... and recorded a cover of John Lennon John Lennon John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music... 's "Love Love (John Lennon song) "Love" is a song written and performed by John Lennon, originally released in 1970 on the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album.-Song:The song first came out on Lennon's 1970 album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. "Love" later appeared on the 1982 compilation The John Lennon Collection, and was released... " for Amnesty Amnesty International Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's... .
2005–2010 Festival 2005 and 4:13 Dream	Robert Smith – vocals, guitar Porl Thompson – guitar Simon Gallup – bass Jason Cooper – drums
2011 "Reflections" The Cure: 'Reflections' The Cure: "Reflections" refers to a set of shows in which The Cure played their first three albums Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds and Faith in full at the VividLive festival at the Sydney Opera House on 31 May and 1 June 2011...	Robert Smith – vocals, guitar Simon Gallup – bass Roger O'Donnell – keyboards Jason Cooper – drums	Lol Tolhurst also joined the band for the "Reflections" shows, but to date there has been no indication that he has rejoined them as a permanent member as O'Donnell has.

In the studio

• Siouxsie Sioux
  Siouxsie Sioux
  Siouxsie Sioux is an English singer-songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer of the critically acclaimed rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees and of its splinter group The Creatures . The Banshees produced eleven studio albums and a string of hit singles including "Hong Kong Garden",...
  
   – backing vocals on the b-side "I'm Cold
  Jumping Someone Else's Train
  "Jumping Someone Else's Train" is a single by The Cure. The song was covered by the Brooklyn-based band "Luff" for the 2008 American Laundromat Records tribute album Just Like Heaven - A Tribute to The Cure and by Army Navy on Manimal Vinyl's tribute Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to The...
  
  ", 1979
• Steve Severin – bass on the Flexipop version of "Lament", 1982
• Steve Goulding – drums on the single "Let's Go to Bed" and its b-side "Just One Kiss", 1982
• Ron Howe – saxophone on the album track "A Night Like This
  The Head on the Door
  The Head on the Door is the sixth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1985. The album is the first to feature drummer Boris Williams, it also features the return of Simon Gallup and is Porl Thompson's first album as an official member....
  
  ", 1985
• Andrew Brennan – saxophone on the album tracks "Icing Sugar
  Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
  Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the seventh studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure. Released in 1987, this album helped put The Cure into the American mainstream, becoming their first album to reach the Billboard Top 40.-History:...
  
  " and "Hey You!!!", 1987
• Kate Wilkinson – viola
  Viola
  The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
  
   on the album track "To Wish Impossible Things", 1992
• Caroline Crawley – backing vocals on the b-side "Halo
  Friday I'm in Love
  "Friday I'm in Love" is a song by British rock band The Cure. It is the second single taken from the album Wish , and is among the band's most well-known songs...
  
  ", 1992
• Over a dozen musicians contributed to the Wild Mood Swings
  Wild Mood Swings
  Wild Mood Swings is the tenth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1996 .-History:After Wish, it seemed The Cure was on the brink of being disbanded due to the departure of Porl Thompson and Boris Williams. Simon Gallup was also forced to take a vacation due to health problems, which...
  
   album, 1996
  • Jesus Alemany, John Barclay, Steve Dawson, Sid Gauld, Steve Sidwell
    Steve Sidwell (musician)
    Steve Sidwell is a conductor, composer, and instrumentalist specialising in swing music. Renowned as an arranger and composer, Steve, has featured on numerous albums, television shows, advertising campaigns and films with his distinctive and innovative orchestrations and compositions.He is also a...
    
     – trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
    
    s
  • Richard Edwards – trombone
    Trombone
    The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
    
    , Will Gregory – saxophone
    Saxophone
    The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
    
    
  • Mister Chandrashekhar, Leo Payne, Chris Tombling – violin
    Violin
    The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
    
    s
  • Sue Dench – viola, Audrey Riley – cello
    Cello
    The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
    
    
  • Ronald Austin
    The God Machine (band)
    The God Machine was an alternative rock band, active in the first half of the 1990s. Its members were all from San Diego, California, United States, but they all lived and performed mainly in the United Kingdom and across Europe....
    
    , Louis Pavlou, Mark Price
    Mark Price (musician)
    Mark Gerard Price is an English drummer, who is known for being the first full time drummer for All About Eve and being the percussionist of Del Amitri between 1997 and 2002...
    
     – drums
• Reeves Gabrels
  Reeves Gabrels
  Reeves Gabrels is an American guitarist, known for virtuosity, versatility, and originality. His compositions and improvisations defy genre and "explore sonic extremes with a great, adaptive intuition for what each song needs most."...
  
   – guitar on the single '"Wrong Number
  Wrong Number (song)
  "Wrong Number" is the name of a single released by the British group the Cure in 1997. The single was the new song on the Galore singles compilation 1987-1997...
  
  ", 1997
• Samantha Sprackling
  Samantha Sprackling
  Samantha Marie Sprackling more commonly known as Saffron, is the lead singer of the electronica band, Republica...
  
   – co-lead vocals on the song "Just Say Yes", 2001

Live

• Steve Severin – bass for the "Riverside Ballet" at the BBC Riverside Studios (March 17th 1983)
• Derek Thompson – bass for The Oxford Road Show (March 18th 1983)
• Norman Fisher-Jones
  Norman Fisher-Jones
  Norman Fisher-Jones also known as Noko, is an English multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and producer, has formed and/or played with a number of bands primarily as a guitarist or bassist...
  
   - bass at Alabamahalle, Munich (January 30th 1984) and for The Oxford Road Show (February 24th 1984)
• Gary Biddles – guest vocals on the song "The Cure are Dead" at the Ancienne Belgique, Brussels (June 11th)
• Vince Ely – drums during the Top
  The Top (album)
  The Top is the fifth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1984.-Overview:The Top was the studio album to follow Pornography. After Pornography, Robert Smith found himself without his friend Simon Gallup, who departed the band due to a fight.Smith then took a radical shift in his music...
  
   Tour, in October/November 1984 (between Andy Anderson leaving the band and Boris Williams joining): Vancouver (22nd), Seattle (23rd), San Francisco (24th & 25th), Los Angeles (26th), Irvine (27th), Salt Lake City (29th), Denver (31st), Austin (2nd), Dallas (3rd), Houston (4th)
• Roberto Soave – bass during the European leg of the Wish Tour, in November 1992 (while Simon Gallup was hospitalised with pleurisy
  Pleurisy
  Pleurisy is an inflammation of the pleura, the lining of the pleural cavity surrounding the lungs. Among other things, infections are the most common cause of pleurisy....
  
  ): Marseille (2nd), Barcelona (4th), Madrid (6th), San Sebastian (8th), Toulouse (11th), Bordeaux (12th), Rennes (13th), Lievin (15th), Birmingham (18th & 19th), Edinburgh (20th & 21st)

Studio personnel

Note: Albums listed in this section also include any and all singles, b–sides and unreleased tracks recorded during the same studio sessions, unless otherwise noted.

• Chris Parry – producer, 1978, 1982 (Three Imaginary Boys
  Three Imaginary Boys
  The album included an uncredited, final instrumental track informally called "The Weedy Burton". The fact was not acknowledged until the Deluxe Edition re-issue.-2004 Deluxe Edition:...
  
   and "Let's Go to Bed").
  • Mike Hedges
    Mike Hedges
    -Career:Mike Hedges started as a tape-op at Morgan Studios in London in the late 1970s. Having graduated to engineer, he went freelance in 1981 and became an engineer/producer....
    
     – engineer, 1978 (Three Imaginary Boys).
• Steve Nye
  Steve Nye
  Steve Nye is a music producer for several artists. Some of his better known artists include Bryan Ferry , Penguin Cafe Orchestra, XTC , Japan , David Sylvian , Clannad, TM Network, Scary Thieves , as...
  
   – producer, 1983 ("The Walk
  The Walk (The Cure song)
  "The Walk" is the name of a 1983 single by The Cure. It later appeared on their album Japanese Whispers"The Walk" was something of a commercial breakthrough for the group with regard to their singles output, peaking at #12 to give them their first entry into the UK top 20...
  
  ").

• Robert Smith
  Robert Smith (musician)
  Robert James Smith is an English musician. He is the lead singer, guitar player and principal songwriter of the rock band The Cure, and its only constant member since its founding in 1976...
  
   – co-producer, 1979–2008
  • Mike Hedges – co-producer, 1979–1981 (Seventeen Seconds
    Seventeen Seconds
    Seventeen Seconds is the second studio album by The Cure, released in April 1980 by Fiction Records. It is the only Cure album to feature keyboardist Matthieu Hartley, and was featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. The album reached number 20 on the British album charts...
    
     and Faith
    Faith (The Cure album)
    Faith is the third album by British band The Cure, released in April 1981.- Overview :Faith is generally a brooding, atmospheric, and sombre album, although it has a flash of anger in the form of the song "Doubt", and some edge in the driving single "Primary"...
    
    ).
  • Phil Thornalley
    Phil Thornalley
    Phil Thornalley is a songwriter-producer who has worked in the music industry since 1978. He is perhaps best known for co-writing the song "Torn" which Natalie Imbruglia later covered to great success for her 1997 debut album, Left of the Middle...
    
     – co-producer, 1982–1983 (Pornography
    Pornography (album)
    NME reviewer Dave Hill wrote, "This record portrays and parades its currency of exposed futility and naked fear with so few distractions or adornments, and so little sense of shame...
    
     and "The Lovecats
    The Lovecats
    "The Love Cats" is a 1983 single by The Cure. It was the band's first Top 10 hit in the UK, peaking at number seven, and also hit number six in Australia. It later appeared on the compilation album Japanese Whispers....
    
    ").
  • Chris Parry – co-producer, 1983–1984 ("The Lovecats" and The Top
    The Top (album)
    The Top is the fifth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1984.-Overview:The Top was the studio album to follow Pornography. After Pornography, Robert Smith found himself without his friend Simon Gallup, who departed the band due to a fight.Smith then took a radical shift in his music...
    
    ).
  • David M. Allen
    David M. Allen
    David M. Allen is a British record producer, engineer and mixer. He is mostly known for his work with new wave, synth pop and goth rock bands including The Cure, The Sisters of Mercy, The Chameleons, Depeche Mode, The Associates, The Human League, Clan of Xymox, Gianna Nannini, Shelleyan Orphan and...
    
     – co-producer, 1984–1992 (The Top, The Head on the Door
    The Head on the Door
    The Head on the Door is the sixth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1985. The album is the first to feature drummer Boris Williams, it also features the return of Simon Gallup and is Porl Thompson's first album as an official member....
    
    , Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
    Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
    Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the seventh studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure. Released in 1987, this album helped put The Cure into the American mainstream, becoming their first album to reach the Billboard Top 40.-History:...
    
    , Disintegration and Wish).
  • Mark Saunders
    Mark Saunders
    Mark Saunders, is a British record producer who has worked on a number of albums. He relocated to New York City in 1996 and currently works from his facility in Manhattan - Beat360 Studios....
    
     – co-producer, 1990, 1997 (Mixed Up and "Wrong Number
    Wrong Number (song)
    "Wrong Number" is the name of a single released by the British group the Cure in 1997. The single was the new song on the Galore singles compilation 1987-1997...
    
    ").
  • Steve Whitfield – co-producer, 1990 ("Hello, I Love You
    Rubáiyát
    Rubáiyát is a compilation album, released in 1990 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Elektra Records record label. The concept was to feature present-day Elektra artists covering songs from the historic catalogue of recordings of Elektra Records and its sister label Asylum Records.Two...
    
    ").
  • Bryan "Chuck" New – co-producer, 1993 ("Purple Haze
    Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix
    Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix is a 1993 album recorded by various artists in tribute to Jimi Hendrix. The artists were drawn from many genres of popular music. Contributors include his classic rock contemporaries Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, blues man Buddy Guy, classical violinist Nigel...
    
    " and "Burn
    The Crow (album)
    The soundtrack to the movie The Crow was released in 1994. Its biggest hit song was "Big Empty" by the Stone Temple Pilots, which was also on their album Purple.-Album information:...
    
    ").
  • Steve Lyon
    Steve Lyon
    Steve Lyon is a professional ice hockey player who played three games in the National Hockey League. He played with the Pittsburgh Penguins.- References :...
    
     – co-producer, 1995–1996 ("Young Americans", "Dredd Song" and Wild Mood Swings
    Wild Mood Swings
    Wild Mood Swings is the tenth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1996 .-History:After Wish, it seemed The Cure was on the brink of being disbanded due to the departure of Porl Thompson and Boris Williams. Simon Gallup was also forced to take a vacation due to health problems, which...
    
    ).
  • The Cure – co-producers, 1996 (Wild Mood Swings).
  • Paul Corkett – co-producer, 1998–2000 ("More Than This
    The X-Files: The Album
    The X-Files: The Album was the soundtrack album by various artists released in conjunction with the 1998 movie, The X-Files. The album peaked at #26 on Billboard's chart and it was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of 500,000 copies....
    
    ", "World in My Eyes
    For the Masses
    For the Masses is a 1998 tribute album to Depeche Mode, specifically the works of Martin Gore. The album charted in America and reached the Top 20 in Germany, making it the most successful Depeche Mode tribute album of all time....
    
    " and Bloodflowers
    Bloodflowers
    Bloodflowers is the eleventh album by English band The Cure, released in 2000. The album is seen as a sombre return to form by critics and fans alike...
    
    ).
  • Mark Plati
    Mark Plati
    Mark Plati is a New York-based musician, record producer, and songwriter, widely acclaimed for his work in the 1990s with David Bowie. An in-demand producer, Plati also has worked with Spookey Ruben, The Cure, Duncan Sheik, Hooverphonic, Robbie Williams, Joe McIntyre, and Natalie Imbruglia...
    
     – co-producer, 1997, 2001 ("Wrong Number", "Cut Here
    Cut Here
    "Cut Here" is the name of a single released by the British group The Cure in 2001 on Fiction Records / Elektra Records. The song was initially released on the album Greatest Hits and reached number 54 on the UK Singles Chart-History:...
    
    " and "Just Say Yes").
  • Ross Robinson
    Ross Robinson
    Ross Robinson, son of Byron Katie, is an American multi-platinum music producer, who has discovered successful acts such as Korn, At the Drive-In, Glassjaw, Repeater, Slipknot and Limp Bizkit. Robinson has also worked with Machine Head, Vanilla Ice, The Cure, Sepultura and many others...
    
     – co-producer, 2004 (The Cure).
  • Keith Uddin
    Keith Uddin
    Keith Uddin , also known as KU, is a songwriter and record producer/engineer.Keith Uddin has had 78 consecutive top 20 singles & albums, as a producer/engineer and/or writer, worldwide, so far this Century, and 42 of those singles and albums went to No1...
    
     – co-producer, 2008 (4:13 Dream).

Related bands

Note: This section only lists those bands or other projects which have included two or more members of The Cure, and thus only lists each band's members who have either been a part of, or performed with The Cure. See individual articles for more detailed credits.

• Cult Hero – Robert Smith
  Robert Smith (musician)
  Robert James Smith is an English musician. He is the lead singer, guitar player and principal songwriter of the rock band The Cure, and its only constant member since its founding in 1976...
  
  , Porl Thompson
  Porl Thompson
  Porl Thompson is an English musician best known for his work with The Cure.-Life and work:Thompson is the oldest of four children; he has two brothers and one sister...
  
  , Simon Gallup
  Simon Gallup
  Simon Jonathon Gallup is an English musician and bassist of the post-punk band The Cure.-Early years:...
  
  , Lol Tolhurst, Michael Dempsey
  Michael Dempsey
  Michael Dempsey is a bassist from England, who has performed as a member of several post-punk and New Wave bands including The Cure and Associates.-Early years:...
  
  , Matthieu Hartley
  Matthieu Hartley
  Matthieu Hartley is an English musician born in Smallfield, England. He is best known as the original keyboardist for The Cure, but before that he and Simon Gallup were involved in two other bands called Lockjaw and The Magazine Spies....
  
  
• COGASM
  COGASM
  COGASM is a side project of singer Robert Smith of The Cure, drummer Jason Cooper and guitarist Reeves Gabrels. The first two letters of the members' surnames were taken to form the group's name, which is properly spelled with all capital letters...
  
   – Robert Smith, Jason Cooper
  Jason Cooper
  Jason Toop Cooper is an English musician best known for his work with The Cure.-Life and work:Jason studied drums at London's Drumtech . He first came to public attention as drummer for the band My Life Story...
  
  , Reeves Gabrels
  Reeves Gabrels
  Reeves Gabrels is an American guitarist, known for virtuosity, versatility, and originality. His compositions and improvisations defy genre and "explore sonic extremes with a great, adaptive intuition for what each song needs most."...
  
  
• The Magazine Spies
  The Magazine Spies
  The Magazine Spies were an English post-punk band from the town of Horley. They were active during 1979 and 1980, and are notable for band members who went on to play in The Cure, Fools Dance and related projects...
  
   – Simon Gallup, Matthieu Hartley
• Presence
  Presence (band)
  Presence was a short-lived British new wave band started by Gary Biddles, Lol Tolhurst, and Michael Dempsey. Dempsey and Tolhurst were founding members of The Cure, and Biddles was a former Cure roadie who previously played in Fools Dance with Simon Gallup...
  
   – Lol Tolhurst, Michael Dempsey, Gary Biddles, Roberto Soave
• Shelleyan Orphan
  Shelleyan Orphan
  Shelleyan Orphan is a British alternative music group, that peaked during the 1980s and early 1990s.-Career:In 1980, Caroline Crawley and Jemaur Tayle met in Bournemouth, England, where they discovered a mutual appreciation of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley...
  
   – Porl Thompson, Boris Williams
  Boris Williams
  Boris Peter Bransby-Williams is an English drummer best known for his extensive work with The Cure . He had previously worked with various artists, including Thompson Twins, Kim Wilde, Strawberry Switchblade and Tomato City...
  
  , Caroline Crawley, Roberto Soave
• Babacar
  Babacar
  Babacar was a short-lived worldbeat supergroup formed in England, featuring former members of Shelleyan Orphan, The Cure, and Presence. The group released one album in their brief existence, their self-titled debut album in 1998, before the band dissolved when Shelleyan Orphan reunited in...
  
   – Porl Thompson, Boris Williams, Roberto Soave, Caroline Crawley
• Siouxsie and the Banshees – Robert Smith, Siouxsie Sioux
  Siouxsie Sioux
  Siouxsie Sioux is an English singer-songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer of the critically acclaimed rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees and of its splinter group The Creatures . The Banshees produced eleven studio albums and a string of hit singles including "Hong Kong Garden",...
  
  , Steven Severin
  Steven Severin
  Steven Severin , is an English musician, composer, bassist and co-founding member of Siouxsie and the Banshees....
  
  
• The Glove
  The Glove
  The Glove was a short-lived one-off alternative rock supergroup, formed in 1982 by The Cure's Robert Smith and Siouxsie and the Banshees' Steven Severin.-History:...
  
   – Robert Smith, Steve Severin, Andy Anderson
• Fools Dance
  Fools Dance
  Fools Dance was a short-lived British rock band, formed in 1982 by Simon Gallup after he left The Cure, due to a conflict with Robert Smith. Initially calling themselves 'The Cry', the band played their first gig at the Covent Garden Rock Garden on the 19th April 1983...
  
   – Simon Gallup, Gary Biddles, Ron Howe
• Levinhurst
  Levinhurst
  Levinhurst is an independent music band formed by Lol Tolhurst, a founding member of The Cure, and his wife Cindy Levinson. Levinson provides vocals while Tolhurst writes the majority of the tracks, musically and lyrically, and programmes the drums and keyboards...
  
   – Lol Tolhurst, Michael Dempsey
• Associates – Michael Dempsey, Roberto Soave, Steve Goulding
• Strawberry Switchblade
  Strawberry Switchblade
  Strawberry Switchblade was a female pop rock band formed in Scotland in 1981 by Jill Bryson and Rose McDowall, best known for their song "Since Yesterday" in 1985.-Before being signed:...
  
   – Phil Thornalley
  Phil Thornalley
  Phil Thornalley is a songwriter-producer who has worked in the music industry since 1978. He is perhaps best known for co-writing the song "Torn" which Natalie Imbruglia later covered to great success for her 1997 debut album, Left of the Middle...
  
  , Boris Williams
• The Psychedelic Furs – Roger O'Donnell
  Roger O'Donnell
  Roger O'Donnell is an English keyboardist best known for his work with The Cure. O'Donnell has also performed in the Psychedelic Furs, the Thompson Twins and Berlin, as well as having an active solo career.- Background :...
  
  , Vince Ely
• The Thompson Twins – Boris Williams, Roger O'Donnell
• Tim Pope
  Tim Pope
  Timothy Michael Pope is a film director most famous for his music videos, having directed feature films, and for a brief pop career.-Early life and career:...
  
  - Robert Smith, Lol Tolhurst, Andy Anderson, Porl Thompson