The Cure - A Forest (Top of the Pops, 24th April 1980)

[BluesControl16]

"Uhrr!"

[IKnowitAllYeah]

My favourite all time track of The Cure. Love you Rob.. always xx

[Luvna45]

Totally Loved this song- used to play it all the time, one of my first albums ever! They were way ahead of their time...

[oogie11]

Cool :)

[999billywhizz]

Is that Simon Cowell on drums?

[Creamy360]

lol at the blatant miming and robert pissing about with it, check the guitar

[360Freakoutkid]

@Creamy360 Lol did you see LOL's hi hats LOL.

[KittensGotTalent]

I love YouTube... I read about A Forest being The Cure's first TOTP performance and seconds later I'm watching it!

Many thanks for posting this... it's mesmeric.  Just a shame that Steve Wright has to be in the same video!

[darkforest121]

This song is so amazingly hot!! It is one of the best for sure!! So hauntingly mesmerizing!! Just digs deep into my soul!! And Robert is just so sexy here!! Wow!! Cant take my eyes off of him and then they cut him off! Now that sucks!! Love The Cure and Robert!! The Cure forever my friends!! ♥♥

[ihatecurehaters]

This is absolutely one of the sexiest songs ever!! And so dark and haunting!! Robert is just amazingly gorgeous here!! Love him!! Bummer how they cut him off though!! :( The Cure forever and always!! ♥

[lovkraft]

This is one of their best songs ever.... but I didn't know Robert Smith was ever this young. He's a kid!

[djeboe]

Fancy that, looking at old Cure videos and one is posted by you! ;)

[watchingXanadu1]

I've been re-reading the Cure biography (Ten Imaginary Years) and was dying to see the infamous thumb bandage on TOTP. Instant gratification. Thanks for posting!

[matsnotfat]

Who was that idiot DJ from Radio 1? I'd forgotten him. He looks like a DJ parody on The Young Ones or Comic Strip presents or something.... It couldn't be Steve Wright in his early days could it?!

[Ombrenuit]

what a song! it's unlike anything I've heard

[TheMrEMeat]

Awesome video, thanks for sharing it.

[lonelywater]

Part of this tune was used as a TV theme tune for something in Britain....Can anyone enlighten me as to what it was. As for the clip, this was from the exact day that one of my friends was born....how impossible is that

[richardking1970]

i loved this track, good to see rob pre make up LOL

[coffeefire]

is that robert smith??????????????? i would never ever have recognised him.......awesome!

[bingoace]

@coffeefire This is Robert believe it or not, but boy was he handsome without the makeup during his early days! Hard to think it is the same bloke!

[chowbotak]

This was no. 1 for 8 weeks back then. My chart tat is

[HumungousPT]

@chowbotak

Not really. At it's peak it reached no.31 in Britain

[meowmeowtan]

@HumungousPT I'm actually referring to my own chart lol

[HumungousPT]

@chowbotak

It reached no.31 at it's peak, in Britain.

[JaveDMode]

Robert was being rebellious. Awesome!

[1969Brookie]

If you notice Robert's thumb all bandaged up...he hurt it the night before changing a tire : ( This is Awesome, Laura. BTW, thanks for subscribing to my channel. You have such wonderful uploads of The Cure. Great quality. Thanks again.

[firenza74]

sinister

[JAYROX1969]

Hey Laura, this is cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!