Robert Smith, lead singer of The Cure, in 1996: "Those who dress in black and wear makeup like me are not real fans."
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Robert Smith in 1996. HERBIE KNOTT/REX FEATURES/SIPA
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Archives In 1996, on the occasion of the release of the album "Wild Mood Swings", the singer of the group The Cure granted an interview to "Le Nouvel Observateur". After four years of absence, Robert Smith confided in the reasons for this break but also on the process of creating this tenth album.
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February 1996. The Bath countryside is disappearing under the snow. In the magnificent Henry VIII manor rented from actress Jane Seymour, Robert Smith and his gang are putting the finishing touches to their tenth album, "Wild Mood Swings." Once through the gates of the manor, the atmosphere is good-natured. Robert Smith, his lips smeared with dripping strawberry lipstick, his eyes covered with smudged Rimmel, his hair disheveled, sets up a boom box in the snowy garden and sticks antique cameras in the hands of journalists. " Isn't Tim Pope shooting the video?" "No, this time it's you. " Laughter. Day is falling. In front of the fireplace in the immense living room, forty-seven guitars stand vertically on their stands.
"Wish," your last album, the ninth released under the Cure name, dates back to 1992. Four years of silence is unusual...Robert Smith Yes. I'd had enough of the band. I'd come to hate myself, my voice, my stage movements. I was becoming unstable. So I decided to become normal. At the end of the Wish Tour in 1992, I went home to Sussex. I realized I'd married my childhood sweetheart...
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