The name "The Cure"

Started by dsanchez, December 14, 2009, 21:57:15

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dsanchez

Ok, so why the band's name is "The Cure"? :D
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japanesebaby

Out of desperation, dislike of West Coast and because 'The' was cool:

Robert:
"We decided we needed another name if we were going to start playing again, so one night in the middle of January 1977, we sat around in my kitchen discussing it. One of our songs was called 'Easy Cure', a song written by Lol, and, eventually, in desperation we settled on that."

Robert:
"I had always thought that Easy Cure was a bit hippyish, a bit American-sounding, a bit West Coast, and i hated it, which put Lol's back up as he'd thought of it. Every other group we liked that 'The' in front of their name but The Easy Cure sounded stupid so we just changed it to The Cure instead. It upset a few old fans... well there you are...I thought The Cure sounded much more like it."

from Ten Imaginary Years
Ay, in the very temple of Delight
Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine

dsanchez

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