Fact #169791
When:
Short story:
Close To Me by The Cure enters the UK pop singles chart where it will peak at No24.
Full article:
Robert Smith (The Cure) : The words were actually about this sense of impending doom that I used to get.
I had chicken pox when I was really young and it started there. I used to get these horrible, nightmarish visions of this head that used to hover in a chink of light that used to come when the bedroom lights were turned off and the door was just ajar.
The shaft of light that came from the hallway used to illuminate this patch of wallpaper and it would come to life and prophesise doom to me through the night whenever I put my eyes in that general direction.
It came back to me when I was writing the album. I was running myself into the ground a little bit and I started to suffer. I suddenly also started to get the same hallucinations, which was very odd.
At the last minute I tried singing them over this jaunty bassline and drum pattern and it just clicked.
(Source : Q magazine feature, 2019, quoted at https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/cure/what-is-the-cure-close-to-me-about/)
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I had chicken pox when I was really young and it started there. I used to get these horrible, nightmarish visions of this head that used to hover in a chink of light that used to come when the bedroom lights were turned off and the door was just ajar.
The shaft of light that came from the hallway used to illuminate this patch of wallpaper and it would come to life and prophesise doom to me through the night whenever I put my eyes in that general direction.
It came back to me when I was writing the album. I was running myself into the ground a little bit and I started to suffer. I suddenly also started to get the same hallucinations, which was very odd.
At the last minute I tried singing them over this jaunty bassline and drum pattern and it just clicked.
(Source : Q magazine feature, 2019, quoted at https://www.radiox.co.uk/artists/cure/what-is-the-cure-close-to-me-about/)