The Cure’s complete career, chronicled for the first time.
The Cure are one of the most respected and well-loved of rock’s survivors, traceable right back to punk’s fabled ‘Bromley contingent’. The band’s labyrinthine story has at its centre the enigmatic, charismatic frontman Robert Smith, forever shuffling personnel, themes and styles to make enduring music without losing an iota of credibility.
In-Between Days is the first book to make sense of a uniquely versatile band who are far more than the Goth band, documenting their development from the new wave attack of 1979’s Boys Don’t Cry, the existential rock of Seventeen Seconds, the near-religious angst of Faith, the joyous pop of Wish, the dark beauty of Disintegration - right up to the majesty of Bloodflowers and 2004’s The Cure, consecutive 21st century masterpieces.
In-Between Days also studies Robert Smith’s brilliant interweaving literary influences from Mervyn Peake and Coleridge to Albért Camus and Jean Cocteau.