{"id":794323,"date":"2019-03-29T20:16:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T02:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=814638"},"modified":"2019-03-29T20:16:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T02:16:57","slug":"read-cure-frontman-robert-smiths-gracious-rock-hall-induction-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/read-cure-frontman-robert-smiths-gracious-rock-hall-induction-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Cure Frontman Robert Smith\u2019s Gracious Rock Hall Induction Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since forming more than four decades ago, the Cure<\/a>\u2019s personal lyrics, dreamlike compositions and gothy image helped them establish a dedicated, cult-like fanbase. Despite these clear contributions to rock \u2014 not to mention gold and platinum records on both side of the Atlantic and megahits like \u201cLovesong\u201d and \u201cThe Love Cats\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s taken 15 years and one failed bid in 2012 for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a> to recognize them with an induction.<\/em><\/p>\n

The institution recognized the artist who\u2019s been at the center of it all from the beginning \u2014 the wild-haired singer and guitarist Robert Smith<\/a> \u2014 along with the current lineup of the band: guitarist Reeves Gabrels, bassist Simon Gallup, keyboardist Roger O\u2019Donnell and drummer Jason Cooper. The band\u2019s other inductees include early Nineties keyboardist and guitarist Perry Bamonte, founding bassist Michael Dempsey, founding guitarist and keyboardist Porl Thompson, founding drummer Lol Tolhurst and on-again, off-again drummer Boris Williams.<\/em><\/p>\n

After a heartfelt speech by Nine Inch Nails\u2019 Trent Reznor, Smith delivered his own brief remarks. Here\u2019s what he had to say.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to thank Trent. It was such a lovely induction speech. It means to a huge amount to hear this from someone who\u2019s such a great artist in his own right. I\u2019d like to thank everyone at the Rock Hall\u2026 everyone that voted for us. It\u2019s a surprise, it\u2019s very much a surprise. \u2026<\/p>\n

As Trent said, it\u2019s 40 years since our first album came out. It doesn\u2019t seem like that. And in that time, there\u2019s obviously been a lot of people who\u2019ve played a part in the Cure story, for better or worse. And I\u2019m not going to stand here and read off a load of names because that\u2019s\u2026 I shouldn\u2019t say too much, really, but that\u2019s quite tedious. And I\u2019m no good with stories. I\u2019m a very bad communicator.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to thank everyone that\u2019s been in the band. Boris Williams, Porl Thompson\u2026 Perry Bamonte, Matthieu Hartley, Phil Thornalley and the much-missed Andy Anderson.<\/p>\n

If I start naming people, we\u2019ll just go on and on\u2026 But there is one person\u2026 When we first started, we were a teenage trio in 1978 \u2026 and one of our very first shows, this small bloke came along, and we weren\u2019t really sure who he was. And he saw something in us that most people didn\u2019t. And that\u2019s Chris Parry. \u2026 So thanks a lot.<\/p>\n

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[Anyone] who\u2019s been to a show or just enjoyed what we do, it\u2019s been a fantastic thing, really. \u2026<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since forming more than four decades ago, the Cure\u2019s personal lyrics, dreamlike compositions and gothy image helped them establish a dedicated, cult-like fanbase. Despite these clear contributions to rock \u2014 not to mention gold and platinum records on both side of the Atlantic and megahits like \u201cLovesong\u201d and \u201cThe Love Cats\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s taken 15 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 08:38:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}