The Cure

as among five songs Thornalley co-wrote on Imbrulgia's 1997 debut album Left of the Middle, and became a worldwide hit single.[1]

Other artists Thornalley has worked with include Bryan Adams, Melanie C,[4] Hepburn,[4] Ronan Keating, BBMak,[4] and Pixie Lott.[1][5]

In 2009, three songs co-written for Pixie Lott reached #1 on the UK charts.[6][7]

References

[1]Tingen, Paul (June 2010). "Phil Thornalley: Torn" (http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun10/articles/thornalley.htm). Sound on Sound.

. Retrieved July 6, 2010.

[2]Rees, Dafydd & Crampton, Luke (ed.) Rock movers & shakers, Volume 1991, Part 2 (1991)(ISBN 978-0874366617)("...the band going into RAK studios to record with new producer Phil Thornalley")

[3]"The Cure - Interview" (http://www.picturesofyou.us/83/m-83-9-rockerilla-italy-interview.htm). Rockerilla (original in Italian).

September 1983. . Retrieved July 6, 2010.(noting that Thornalley is a current member of the Cure)

[4]"Production notes" (http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-55300745/production-notes.html). Music Week. July 17, 1999. . Retrieved July 6, 2010.

[5]Savage, Mark (June 5, 2009). "Pop Pixie has a whole Lotta love" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8078714.stm). BBC News. . Retrieved July 6, 2010.("For the last three years, she has been collaborating with some of the biggest hitmakers in the industry, including Red One (Lady GaGa's Just Dance), Phil Thornalley (Natalie Imbruglia's Torn) and Toby Gad (Beyonce's If I Were A Boy).")

[6]"QUICKFIRE: Twelve years in waiting: Lott hitmaker reaches top" (http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-202395905/

quickfire-twelve-years-waiting.html). Music Week. June 27, 2009. . Retrieved July 6, 2010.

[7] Biography (http://philthornalley.com/biography.html), philthornalley.com, Retrieved July 6, 2010 ("More recently I’ve enjoyed Three UK Number One’s (“Mama Do”,“Boys & Girls” and "Cry Me Out") with the Pixie Lott.")

External links

• Official site (http://philthornalley.com/)

Lol Tolhurst

Laurence Tolhurst

Laurence Andrew "Lol" Tolhurst (born 3 February 1959) is a founding member and former drummer and keyboardist of British band The Cure. He left The Cure in 1989 and was later involved in the band Presence and his current project Levinhurst, a portmanteau of Tolhurst and his wife vocalist Cindy Levinsons' surnames. As of 2011, he has briefly reunited with The Cure for selected shows, but has not officially rejoined.

Life and career

Early years (1959–1975)

Tolhurst was born in Horley, Surrey, England, the fifth of six children of William and Daphne Tolhurst; he has three brothers (Roger, Nigel, and John) and two sisters (Jane and Barbara). He is also the uncle of Nick Tolhurst, an author on Corporate Social Responsibility and head of the Institute for Corporate Culture Affairs[2] He is also distantly related to the composer George Tolhurst. His birthday coincided with the day of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper. Tolhurst was five years old when he first met Robert Smith at St. Francis Primary and Junior Schools, and thus began a friendship that culminated in the formation of The Cure.

The Cure (1976–1989)

Tolhurst is one of the co-founders of The Cure, and as a drummer he helped write and record the albums Three Imaginary Boys, Boys Don't Cry, Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography. After the Pornography tour in 1982 Tolhurst assumed keyboard duties. In late 1988, with the recording of The Cure's eighth studio album Disintegration, some tensions surfaced, when Tolhurst was battling with alcohol and drugs. During the mix of Disintegration, he was fired from the band, and despite getting credit, the members of The Cure have said that Tolhurst never performed on the album.

After The Cure (1990–2010)

Following his departure from The Cure, Tolhurst and Gary Biddles – who previously worked with Simon Gallup in Fools Dance – formed the short-lived band Presence, which only released one full-length album called Inside. He said several years later that he recorded a second album with this band, but he said it is unlikely that it will ever be released.[3] In 1994, he sued Robert Smith and Fiction Records over royalties payments, also claiming joint ownership of the name The Cure with Smith. He eventually lost after a long legal battle.[4] He has worked as a producer for the debut album of And Also the Trees.

In the early 2000s, Tolhurst and his second wife, Cindy Levinson, formed a band called Levinhurst. A few months before the release of their debut album, Tolhurst said in an interview that he had reconciled with Robert Smith and that the two of them were friends again.[5] Shortly afterward, Levinhurst released their debut album, Perfect Life, in 2004. Since then, they have also released an EP called The Grey featuring a cover of The Cure's "All Cats Are Grey" – which he claimed credit for writing lyrically in another interview[6] - and two other songs. Their second album, House by the Sea, was released in April 2007. Their third album, called Blue Star and featuring original Cure bassist Michael Dempsey, was released in the U.S. in June 2009 and worldwide in February 2010. He has also recently composed music for the film 9,000 Needles; a documentary that recently won "Best Documentary" at the Phoenix Film festival 2010. Tolhurst is currently on a world tour with Levinhurst to promote Blue Star. The second part of the European tour "Blue Star Over Europe" was in October 2010, followed by a South and North American tour early in 2011.

Reunion with The Cure (2011)

In 2010, The Guardian published an article with a headline reading "The Cure's original drummer asks to rejoin band."[7] However, Tolhurst called the article "a little misleading" saying:

I have not asked RS to rejoin the Cure! I have my thing, he has his. I just thought it might be fun to play the old songs together again especially as Michael and I had a great time playing the TIB songs this March in Europe.[8]

As of 2011, it was announced that Tolhurst would be performing with The Cure for the first time in 22 years when the band perform their first three albums – Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds, and Faith – in their entirety at the Sydney Opera House in Australia.[9]

Discography

The Cure

•Three Imaginary Boys (1979)

•Boys Don't Cry (1980)

•Seventeen Seconds (1980)

•Faith (1981)

•Happily Ever After

•Pornography (1982)

•Japanese Whispers (1983)

•The Top (1984)

•Concert: The Cure Live (1984)

•The Head on the Door (1985)

•Standing on a Beach (1986)

•Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987)

•Disintegration (1989) (was credited, but did not play)

•Galore (1997)

•Greatest Hits (2001)

•Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978–2001 (The Fiction Years) (2004)

Presence

→ See Presence discography

Levinhurst

→ See Levinhurst Discography

References

[1]http://www.levinhurst.com/

[2]""Lol Tolhurst" 27 June 2007" (http://www.picturesofyou.us/members/Lol-TIY-baby.htm). Picturesofyou.us. . Retrieved 2011-10-29.

[3]"Interview with Lol" 1 August 2007 (http://www.angelfire.com/ny2/graveconcerns/interview_levinhurst.html)

[4]""Drummer beaten in cash battle" 27 June 2007" (http://www.picturesofyou.us/94/94-lol-trial-drummer-beaten-in-cash-battle.htm). Picturesofyou.us. . Retrieved 2011-10-29.

[5]Mitchell, Daniel. ""Laurence Tolhurst" 27 June 2007" (http://www.ink19.com/issues/november2003/interviews/laurenceTolhurst.html). Ink19.com. . Retrieved 2011-10-29.

[6]""Interview to Lol Tolhurst" 27 June 2007" (http://www.hispacure.com/b/prensa/archivo/reportajes/hispacure/

HispaCure_interview_to_Lol_Tolhurst_April2007.pdf) (PDF). . Retrieved 2011-10-29.

[7]Sean Michaels (2010-08-24). "The Cure's original drummer asks to rejoin band" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/aug/24/ the-cure-lol-tolhurst-faith). London: Guardian. . Retrieved 2011-10-29.

[8]"Levinhurst blog" (http://www.myspace.com/levinhurst/blog). Myspace.com. 24 August 2010. . Retrieved 2011-10-29.

[9]"The Cure playing first 3 albums in Sydney with ex-members Lol Tolhurst, Roger O’Donnell" (http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2011/ 05/05/cure-lol-tolhurst-three-imaginary-boys-seventeen-seconds-faith/). Slicingupeyeballs.com. 5 May 2011. . Retrieved 2011-10-29.

External links

•Levinhurst (http://www.levinhurst.com)

•Lol's MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/loltolhurst)

•Interview with Tolhurst at chaindlk.com (http://www.chaindlk.com/interviews/index. php?interview=Levinhurst)

•Interview with Tolhurst at freewilliamsburg.com (http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/may_2004/levinhurst. html)

Boris Williams

Boris Peter Bransby-Williams (born 24 April 1957) is an English drummer best known for his extensive work with The Cure (1984–1993). Born in Versailles, France, he had previously worked with various artists, including Thompson Twins, Kim Wilde, Strawberry Switchblade and Tomato City. Williams is one of seven children; he has two brothers - Michael and Morgan - and four sisters - Juliet, Caroline, Mira, and Sarah. Williams dated Caroline Crawley, lead singer of Shelleyan Orphan.

Involvement with The Cure

Williams first joined The Cure in 1984 (first gig on November 7 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA), replacing Andy Anderson, who was fired for destroying a hotel room. During his tenure, Williams helped The Cure reach their critical and commercial peak recording the studio albums The Head on the Door, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Disintegration, and Wish. He also appeared on the live albums Entreat, Paris, and Show as well as the videos for

Staring at the Sea, The Cure in Orange, Picture Show, Galore and Greatest Hits. He also helped record the re-remixes album Mixed Up.

Boris Williams drumming style is often referred to by drummers as 'Linear' as it follows regular cycles with repetitive rhythmic themes, patterns and fills which creates a very solid and dependable foundation around which the music is structured and which are in fact compositions in their own right. Current Cure drummer Jason Cooper also commented on this in the live Cure DVD "Trilogy" recorded in Berlin. Cooper recreates all of the classic Williams drum parts for the songs just as they were written for this very reason.

Williams, like all other Cure drummers, also very rarely if ever used or played a ride cymbal in his work with the band which is most unusual for a modern drum kit player. A second pair of hi-hats was instead used in the usual ride cymbal position so that open handed/un-crossed arm playing was possible which also made for interesting pattern variations a crossed-handed player would normally find very difficult and sometimes even impossible to play.

His use of electronic percussion triggers, pads and samplers played live from the kit was also a fundamental part of his sound as he triggered many different analog snares, clap sounds, glass smashes ("Disintegration"), Chimes ("Plainsong") in order to re-create albums live. See The Cure in Orange concert for some good shots and application of his trigger pad and sampler usage for "Play For Today" among other tracks.

Some of his most innovative drumming can be heard on the songs "Six Different Ways" and "Sinking" from The Head on the Door, "Icing Sugar", "The Kiss", "Torture" and "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep" from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, "Closedown", "Fascination Street", "Prayers for Rain" and "Last Dance" from Disintegration, "Open" "Cut" and "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea" from Wish.

Notable Williams fills that are instantly identifiable and setup the rhythmic theme for the song can be easily heard in the reoccurring fills in "Inbetween Days" from The Head on the Door, "Just Like Heaven" from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Williams left the band in 1993. His last concert was on 13 June in Finsbury Park at a benefit concert for London's XFM radio station. Williams then started another band called Babacar with his then girlfriend Caroline Crawley. He briefly reunited with The Cure for the acoustic recording of their Greatest Hits compilation in 2001, but he did not rejoin them officially. He was also present at some of the sessions for the Cure's 2004 album, simply titled The Cure.

Discography

The Cure

•The Head on the Door (1985)

•The Cure in Orange (1986), VHS

•Standing on a Beach (1986)

•Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987)

•Disintegration (1989)

•Mixed Up (1990)

•Entreat (1991)

•Wish (1992)

•Paris (1993)

•Show (1993)

•Galore (1997)

•Greatest Hits (2001)

Thompson Twins

•Quick Step and Side Kick (1983)[1]

•Into the Gap (1984)

Strawberry Switchblade

• Strawberry Switchblade (1985)[2]

Ian McCulloch

• Candleland (1989)[3]

Drums on "The White Hotel" and "Proud to Fall"

Shelleyan Orphan

• Humroot (1992)[4]

Babacar

• Babacar (1998)

References

[1]"Quick Step and Side Kick" (http://artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,174866,00.html). Artistdirect.com. . Retrieved 2011-10-31.

[2]"Strawberry Switchblade" (http://artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,218099,00.html). Artistdirect.com. . Retrieved 2011-10-31.

[3]Candleland

[4]"Humroot" (http://artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,162106,00.html). Artistdirect.com. . Retrieved 2011-10-31.

External links

•Boris Williams bio (http://www.picturesofyou.us/members/Boris-bio-tiy-book.htm)

•Boris at Pictures of You (http://www.picturesofyou.us/members/Boris.htm)

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Studio albums

Three Imaginary Boys

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Three Imaginary Boys is English rock band The Cure's debut album, released in May 1979 by Fiction Records. It was later released in the United States and Australia, with a slightly different song line-up, as Boys Don't Cry.

History

"Foxy Lady", a soundcheck with vocals sung by Michael Dempsey, was not supposed to be on the album and was removed for the American release. Smith has stated that "songs like 'Object' and 'World War' and our cover of 'Foxy Lady' were [Chris Parry's] choice, even though they were diabolical and I hated them"[5] The record company decided which songs were put on the album, as well as the cover artwork, without Robert Smith's consent. For all Cure albums since, Smith has ensured he is given complete creative control over the final product before it goes on sale.

The band has performed as an encore "Three Imaginary Boys", "Fire in Cairo", "Boys Don't Cry", "Jumping Someone Else's Train", "Grinding Halt", "10:15 Saturday Night" and "Killing an Arab" (sung as "Killing Another")

on the 2007/2008 4Tour (the singles "Boys Don't Cry", "Jumping Someone Else's Train" and "Killing an Arab" were on the American release).

In 2011 The Cure performed the album in its entirety at venues in Sydney, New York, and Los Angeles.[6] These shows, billed as The Cure: 'Reflections', were recorded for potential DVD release.

2004 re-release

The album was reissued on 29 November 2004 in the UK (7 December in the U.S.), and featured a second disc of unreleased material, including songs recorded under the band name "Easy Cure" with Porl Thompson. Since it features a variety of old songs, it is the only Deluxe Edition by the band which does not feature an alternate version of all the songs on the first disc. Some of the early booklets in the reissue had the lyrics missing, and were made available on The Cure's website in pdf form. All copies since have the lyrics.

The first single, "Killing an Arab", was excluded from the re-issue likely due to its controversial nature (see the article).

It was originally supposed to be released in early 2004 along with Seventeen Seconds, Faith, and Pornography but was delayed multiple times and was finally released by itself at the end of 2004.

There also exists a one-CD reissue. It was released on 5 September 2005 in the UK and 28 March 2006 in the US. The CD features the original album, but does not contain the bonus disc. It is also released in the standard jewel case, and not a box. In some countries, the Deluxe Edition has become a collector's item as production was phased out, being replaced by the more economic one-CD version.

Track listing

Original 1979 release

All songs written and composed by Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey and Lol Tolhurst, except where noted.