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The Cure start work on their second album, Seventeen Seconds, at Morgan Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.Full article:
Robert Smith : I was 21, but I felt really old. I actually felt older than I do now. I had absolutely no hope for the future. I felt life was pointless. I had no faith in anything. I just didn’t see there was much point in continuing with life. In the next two years, I genuinely felt that I wasn’t going to be alive for much longer. I tried particularly hard to make sure I wasn’t.
The whole thing was reinforced by the fact that Ian Curtis (of Joy Division) had killed himself. I knew that The Cure were considered fake in comparison, and it suddenly dawned on me that to make this album convincing I would have to kill myself. If I wanted people to accept what we were doing, I was going to have to take the ultimate step.”
(Source : interview in Uncut, 2000)
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The whole thing was reinforced by the fact that Ian Curtis (of Joy Division) had killed himself. I knew that The Cure were considered fake in comparison, and it suddenly dawned on me that to make this album convincing I would have to kill myself. If I wanted people to accept what we were doing, I was going to have to take the ultimate step.”
(Source : interview in Uncut, 2000)