The Cure FAQ: All That's Left to Know about the Most Heartbreakingly Excellent Rock Band the World Has Ever Known

Foreword: Wind on My Face, Sound in My Ears\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction: O Death . . . Rock Me\n1 Sordid Details Following: Robert Smith\n2 So Close to Something Better Left Unknown: The Formative Years\n3 Radio-Friendly Unit Shifters: Chris Parry and Fiction Records\n4 Degenerate the Faithful: “Killing an Arab”\n5 You Would Cry Too: Three Imaginary Boys\n6 Ticking Away the Moments: Seventeen Seconds\n7 Thunder in Our Hearts: Simon Gallup\n8 The Ghosts of My Life: Faith\n9 Bereft in Deathly Bloom: The Cure in Goth\n10 Sex Is Violent: Pornography\n11 Once Upon a Time in a Land Called Fantasy: The Pop Singles\n12 Pictures Came and Broke Your Heart: The Cure in Video\n13 Twisted Under Sideways Down: The Glove’s Blue Sunshine\n14 A Siren Singing You to Shipwreck: Robert Smith as a Banshee\n15 Feed Your Head: The Top\n16 Lost in Motion, Locked Together: The Extended Cure\n17 Never Quite as It Seems: The Head on the Door\n18 Hold on to These Moments as They Pass: The Cure Compiled\n19 Started Out Down a Dirty Road: The Cure in Concert, Part 1 (1976–1986)\n20 There’s Fever in the Funk House, Now: Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me\n21 What You Had and What You Lost: Disintegration\n22 Playing That Organ Must Count for Something: Laurence Tolhurst\n23 Feel Like Swirling and Dancin’: Mixed Up, Torn Down, and the Remixes\n24 I Will Rise . . . and You’ll See Me Return: Wish\n25 Reach Out and Touch the Flame: The Cure’s Live Albums and DVDs\n26 The Rhythm Has Control: The Drummers\n27 Believe Me, I’m Going to Be Big: The Cure in Popular Culture\n28 We’ve All Gone Crazy Lately: Wild Mood Swings\n29 The Good Old Days May Not Return: The Cure in Concert, Part 2 (1987–1999)\n30 Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: Bloodflowers\n31 This and That, These and Those: The Cure’s Hidden Gems\n32 Just When You Think You’ve Got It Down: The Cure\n33 Seemed So Very Real: 4:13 Dream\n34 I Guess I’ll Know When I Get There: The Cure in Concert, Part 3 (2000–2019)\n35 They Shine for You, They Burn for All to See: The Cure’s Legacy\nSelected Bibliography\nSelected Index