NME 2009. The Robert Smith Interview (Complete)

Robert Smith, frontman of The Cure since the band's creation in 1976, a multi-instrumentalist and one of the most highly regarded artists in the world, talks about his experiences from his early days of touring, and The Cure's work-ethic when on stage. This is the complete cut of seperate videos, edited together.

Robert James Smith was born in Blackpool on 21st April 1959 and is the third of four children born to Alex and Rita Smith. His siblings are Richard, Margaret and Janet. When he was three years old his family moved to Horley in Surrey, then finally to Crawley four years later. Smith was raised as a Catholic and went to Notre Dame Middle School and St. Wilfrid's Comprehensive School in Crawley, West Sussex.

Robert began wearing his trademark style of smeared red lipstick, eye-liner, pale complexion, sleeping in graves, artfully dishevelled black hair, black clothes, and trainers in the early 1980s, around the same time as the Goth subculture got its start. However, Smith denies any link and claims it's a coincidence that the styles are similar, stating that he has worn make-up since he was young and saying, "It's so pitiful when 'goth' is still tagged onto the name The Cure".

His song writing for the band's early albums centered around themes of depression, loneliness, and isolation. The sombre mood of these early albums, along with Robert's on-stage persona, cemented the band's "gothic" image.

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[simionTheOne]

one of the last remaining legends.. what a man

unlike the other sell-out worthless bands we get offered today

or those who kept on going to make shitty setlists of the same songs over & over again

they've still got it you know

[Fenner1976]

@simionTheOne Very true and well said :)

[djpj22]

The only 50 year old that can wear make-up and not look like a paedophile.

[isaacaaron4jesus]

I love the way he sound like Mr Bean at 3:53 when he says "we have to be number 1."

[JoshFF745]

He really meant it when he said the 40 minute show was disappointing. Look at him now he's playing three albums in their entirety at concerts.

[dmajr619]

Is this hair fake? After all he has 50s, and how come he's still shy?

[SomethingReal1119]

That is so sweet how he mentions that when he plays, he thinks of the people the furthest from the stage who probably had to save for months to get the money for tickets to a cure show....and how he never wants to disappoint them. He seems like a very nice guy! Ooooh, I still think he's adorable, even though he gets teased because of his hair/makeup. So what if he's an aging rock star. I'm an aging NON rockstar, so who am I to criticize??

[lonerworm]

-oops- Simon Gallup literally doesn't age????!!!! Vampire?

[lonerworm]

Simon Gallup dpesn

[lonerworm]

Bowie, Kate Bush, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails

[inzzannity]

the guy of the 0:19 looks like justin bieber .-.

[juem]

thanks for this...love it .