Fact #165724
When:
Short story:
The Walk by The Cure enters the UK singles chart, where it will peak at No12 – giving them their first Top Twenty entry.
Full article:
Steve Severin (The Banshees) : The Cure had a hit with The Walk just as we started recording Hyena, which Robert was playing guitar on... Suddenly, he was being dragged off all over the place doing promotion for The Walk. It put us in a situation where he was hardly ever there.
The pressure from the record label was immense. They were always waiting in the wings like vultures. It was like, ‘If we don’t give Robert something to do with The Banshees today, he’ll be off doing something with The Cure, so let’s think of something: a rehearsal, a festival, a photo-shoot, anything to keep him away from Fiction’. We certainly weren’t going to play second fiddle to The Cure. We came first.
Robert Smith (The Cure) : We’d been very orthodox in the way that we’d used things before so we decided to do something all electronic. That’s why we had Steve Nye to produce it, because we heard the stuff he’d done with Japan on Tin Drum and although that’s all electronic, it sounds acoustic.
Peter Hook (bassist, New Order) : Plenty of people have ripped us off, but The Cure really take the piss sometimes.
Robert Smith : We knew it would be compared with Blue Monday (by New Order) but it would have been wrong not to have released it because of that. (1986)
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The pressure from the record label was immense. They were always waiting in the wings like vultures. It was like, ‘If we don’t give Robert something to do with The Banshees today, he’ll be off doing something with The Cure, so let’s think of something: a rehearsal, a festival, a photo-shoot, anything to keep him away from Fiction’. We certainly weren’t going to play second fiddle to The Cure. We came first.
Robert Smith (The Cure) : We’d been very orthodox in the way that we’d used things before so we decided to do something all electronic. That’s why we had Steve Nye to produce it, because we heard the stuff he’d done with Japan on Tin Drum and although that’s all electronic, it sounds acoustic.
Peter Hook (bassist, New Order) : Plenty of people have ripped us off, but The Cure really take the piss sometimes.
Robert Smith : We knew it would be compared with Blue Monday (by New Order) but it would have been wrong not to have released it because of that. (1986)