The Cure is an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. It’s lineup includes Robert Smith, Porl Thompson, Simon Gallup and Jason Cooper. In May 1979 they released their debut album, Three Imaginary Boys, through Fiction Records. It was later released in the United States with a slightly different song line-up as Boys Don’t Cry. The album reached number forty-four on the UK Albums Chart. The Cure then went on to release their sophomore record, Seventeen Seconds in April of 1980. The album ended up peaking at the number twenty spot on the Billboard charts. Between 1982 and 1996, The Cure released seven studio albums, all of which reached the Top 10 in the UK. The most successful of these was Wish (1992) which reached number one in the UK and number two on the US Billboard 200. Since the release of Seventeen Seconds, The Cure has released a total of eleven studio albums, ten compilation albums, four live albums, thirty nine singles and forty three music videos. The last three studio albums Bloodflowers (2000), The Cure (2004) and 4:13 Dream have had mixed success, reaching numbers fourteen, eight and thirty-three in the UK respectively.
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