The Cure
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Year:
2019
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Inducted by:
Trent Reznor
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Category:
Performers
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Boris Williams -
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Jason Cooper -
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Lol Tolhurst -
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Michael Dempsey -
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Perry Bamonte -
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Porl Thompson -
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Reeves Gabrels -
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Robert Smith -
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Roger O'Donnell -
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Simon Gallup
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails Inducts The Cure
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails Inducts The Cure at the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony-
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Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails Inducts The Cure00:09:37 -
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The Cure Acceptance Speech00:03:42 -
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"Boy's Don't Cry"00:03:28 -
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"Just Like Heaven"00:03:37 -
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"A Forest"00:06:53 -
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"Lovesong"00:03:31 -
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"Shake Dog Shake"00:04:36
Hall of Fame Essay
2019
A review of Three Imaginary Boys, the Cure’s debut album, ran in Melody Maker on May 12, 1979, under the headline “The Eighties Start Here.”
In England, the magnificent fury of punk rock as it broke in 1977 was already being consigned to cliché: The best bands were consigned to new stylistic adventures, and the bands they inspired into existence were moving even farther afield.
America gave most of it the cold shoulder, waiting for more colorful and diplomatic acts – the kind that MTV could embrace – to give the new decade a look and a sound, calling it everything from new wave to postpunk, New Romantic, synth pop, and college rock.
one of the most unique, most brilliant, most heartbreakingly excellent bands
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