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Robert Smith Wiki Biography

Robert James Smith was born on the 21st April 1959, in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, and is best known for being the co-founder and lead singer of English punk-rock band The Cure. He is also a songwriter and guitarist, whose career began during the 1970s. He is also recognized as a member of the band Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Have you ever wondered how rich is Robert Smith? Sources estimate that Smith’s net worth is $15 million as of early 2016, with the main source of this amount of money being, of course, his professional career in the music world.

Robert Smith was brought up in a musical family, with father James Alexander Smith a singer, and mother Rita Mary Smith a pianist, so at a very young age he took not only piano lessons, but also guitar lessons. He attended St. Francis Primary School, later transferring to St. Francis Junior School in Crawley, West Sussex, as his family moved there. After elementary education, he went to Notre Dame Middle School and St. Wilfrid’s Comprehensive School. As a 13-year-old boy he was already a member of several bands; along with brother Richard, sister Janet and their friends, he was a member of the band called The Crawley Goat Band, and even before founding this band, Smith has performed with friends from Notre Dame Middle School in the band named The Obelisk, which later became The Easy Cure in 1976, and then just The Cure.

Beside Smith, The Cure featured Paul Thompson, Michael Dempsey, and Lol Tolhurst. With the band he has released 13 studio albums, a number of live recordings and also EP’s and compilations albums, all of which, have increased Smith’s overall net worth. The band has changed several members; however Smith remained the only founder member through the years of its existence. The band’s first full length album was released in 1979, entitled “Three Imaginary Boys”, but a different version of the album was released for the USA market, with a different name – “Boys Don’t Cry”. Although it received positive critiques from various music magazines, Smith wasn’t quite satisfied with the debut album. Nevertheless, he continued making music, and the next year, Robert and the band released their second album, entitled “Seventeen Seconds” (1980), on which they focused more on a gothic sound, and which they continued to incorporate in their next few albums, making Smith the “Godfather Of Goth” and extending his overall net worth by a large margin.

The Cure released two more albums, before their name hit with the public, “Faith” (1981), and “Pornography” (1982), after which Smith changed the genre of the band’s music, switching from goth to pop rock, with the first album which entered into the top 10 UK chart list, “Top” (1984).The album also managed to enter into the US Billboard top 200 chart on the No. 180. Since then, Robert has became one of the more noted musicians in pop history. With the Cure, he has released eight more studio albums, such as “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me” (1987), “Disintegration” (1989), “Wish” (1992), which also reached No. 1 on the UK Top Albums, and No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart in US, “Bloodflowers” (2000), and their last studio release “4:13 Dream” (2003).

Apart from his successful career with the band Cure, Robert has also collaborated with numerous musicians and bands of the rock music scene, which also increased his net worth. Robert performed and recorded with acts such as Siouxsie and the Banshees, Billy Corgan, Placebo, and numerous others.

Regarding his personal life, Robert Smith has been married to Mary Theresa Poole, his high-school sweetheart, since 1988, but they mutually agreed at the beginning of the marriage not to have any children.

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Robert Smith Trademarks

1. His distinctive voice
2. Red lipstick, black eyeshadow and ‘big’ hair

Robert Smith Quotes

• [1996; on football/soccer and asked about Jason Cooper supposedly being the only Cure member not interested in it] Boris [Williams] wasn’t interested in it either. Jason is so much alike to him in many ways that sometimes I think that it is Boris in a stupid disguise. He is a cricket fan, just like Boris. Perry [Bamonte] isn’t really interested in football either, that is just for Simon [Gallup], Roger [O’Donnell] and myself. And Simon and Roger don’t understand anything about football really, as Arsenal and West Ham fans. That certainly isn’t football.
• [on what would have happened had Laurence Tolhurst stayed in The Cure] Simon [Gallup] would have thrown him off a balcony. And then my best friend would be in jail and Lol would be dead. It was much easier for him not to be in the band.
• [on Winnie the Pooh] The bear of very little brain.
• [Asked if he plays the national lottery] Sometimes at the studio – I tried 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6!
• [1990; on the circumstances of Roger O’Donnell’s departure from The Cure] Very simply – Simon [Gallup] and Boris [Williams] didn’t really get on with him… no real reasons, just a simmering unease… so someone had to leave. It ended up being Roger.
• [Asked how familiar he is with the Cure cover band ‘Fat Bob and The Cure Heads’] I’ve heard the name – not strangely enough I’m not the slightest bit tempted to see them play live!
• [on playing at Glastonbury Festival in 1990] Glastonbury was ok, but its organisation does leave an awful lot to be desired. There should have been crush barriers in the main field – the one particular incident down the front with the girl being given the kiss of life shocked us a bit too much to really get into the set.
• [1995; asked if he surfs on the internet] I tried it once.
• [1990; asked why he and the other Cure members call Perry Bamonte ‘Teddy’] He hangs his head like one.
• [1990; asked if The Cure are usually drunk before going onstage] No. Only me!
• [on being godfather to Eden, bandmate Simon Gallup’s son] His spiritual future is assured.
• [Asked what type of The Cure fan he likes] All of them! Except the ones who feel they are owed something.
• [on Paula Abdul’s song ‘Forever Your Girl] I must admit – I like that record!
• [Asked what is his favourite proverb] ‘He who tries to please all pleases none.’
• [Asked if The Cure were all drunk when performing ‘Pictures of You’ on ‘Top of the Pops’] Yes! Well spotted!
• [on the 1990 Fifa World Cup] Me and Simon [Gallup] ran riot in a bar in Austria the night Germany stole England’s win – but apart from that one result I enjoyed the World Cup immensely.
• If you hate the musician you might end up hating the cause he or she is supporting; this is the danger…
• [Asked if he has ever experienced any kind of supernatural event] Only under the influence of mind altering drugs. Does this count? I thought not.
• [Asked what he would do if wife Mary asked him to give up The Cure] She wouldn’t ask me to!
• [Asked what his favourite joke is; referring to former bandmate Lol Tolhurst’s new band] Presence.
• [Asked if he has ever been arrested, and if so, why] Once in Holland for public indecency. Once in Luxembourg for criminal damage. Once in Japan for threatening behaviour. All 3 times I was let off with a ‘warning’!
• [Asked if he has murderous instincts] Not as often as I used to… but then I don’t see as many people!
• [Asked what people would learn about him just by observing his closest friends] I really don’t know. Probably nothing.
• [Asked what makes him sad] People, mainly.
• [Asked if he usually confronts or avoids difficult situations] I usually confront, but I often wish I had avoided!
• [Asked what was the most terrible event or day in his life] Leaving school. And passing 30!
• [Asked how he reacts to rejection] I’m used to it! And it doesn’t really bother me at all!
• [Asked if he has ever seen a ghost] Sometimes I think I do.
• [Asked how he feels knowing that he has changed people’s lives, and whether it scares him] Sometimes it scares me, mostly it helps me…
• [Asked if he has any phobias] I hate big spiders and windows that don’t open. And guard dogs.
• When we released “The 13th” as a single, part of me thought it was good because it was different, and half of me thought that it was totally ridiculous.
• “Wild Mood Swings” was one of the weirdest records we’d ever made. I actually wanted it to be like a Nick Drake album. We approached this producer called Haydn Bendall, who’d worked with Kate Bush and done the strings for Nick Drake at some point. I wanted to do the album with a string section and acoustic guitars. In the end, only “Bare” and “Numb” were like that.
• In 1997, we played a massive festival on the West Coast of America, and Oasis and The Chemical Brothers were our support bands; anyone who was anyone in Britain supported us. NME managed to review that show and not mention that we were playing, let alone headlining. Britpop might have had a huge effect over here, and it might have marginalised us in a way we hadn’t suffered since the early ’80s, but everywhere else people were laughing about it. In the UK, we were portrayed as part of some old guard, and I remember thinking, ‘I’m fucked if I’m going to let that happen to me.’ This is what punk did, or was at least meant to do, to The Rolling Stones. I just thought it wasn’t fair. We were actually younger in spirit compared with all those bands.
• With “Wild Mood Swings”, it was like starting again. We were written off, but we still sold a million records. I was really happy with it; I think it’s a very underrated record. It was savaged over here and Cure fans were a little wary of it because it wasn’t what they wanted.
• “Wish” went in at No 1 around the world, so there wasn’t anywhere to go. Porl (Porl Thompson) and Boris (Boris Williams) left because they realised they weren’t enjoying it any more, but somehow I couldn’t admit that to myself.
• “In Between Days” was the first hit that I was really proud of. Everything up until then I considered quirky, almost like novelty records. “In Between Days” was the first song of ours that people played everywhere. It was fresh and upbeat and full of life. It was a massive song for us.
• [on “The Top”] It had “The Caterpillar”, which was a really bizarre single, and the rest of it was totally demented.
• Around the early Eighties, there was The Teardrop Explodes, the Bunnymen (Echo & The Bunnymen) and us, who people always used to lump together. The Bunnymen and the Teardrops both had hits before us and I can remember thinking, ‘We’re never going to have a hit.’ I thought I was going to have to get used to the fact that what we were doing was making underground music. Then we did “Let’s Go To Bed” and suddenly we were off.
• [on “Closer” by Joy Division] I remember hearing “Closer” for the first time and thinking, ‘I can’t ever imagine making something as powerful as this.’
• I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn’t want anyone to know who I was.
• [on his wife Mary] She knows I’m not perfect, she loves me as I am.
• There have been very few virtuosos in the history of the group, but there have been a lot of really nice people. The Cure backstage is a notoriously fun-filled zone.
• What we do I think attracts a certain type of person. I don’t think age has much to do with it, you either get into it or you don’t. You could be 16 or 60 and you’re either gonna like us or not depending on your sensibilities.
• You know, the Internet’s made us more aware of what people think about us.

Robert Smith Important Facts

• In London, England, UK. Recording The Cure’s 12th studio album. [March 2004]
• The Cure has been in the studio working on a 14th album, which should be released later this year or next year. [February 2011]
• They are recording a new album that comes out in summer 2006. [February 2006]
• Winner of the 2005 Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement.
• The Cure won the Brit Award for British Video in 1990 for their song “Lullaby”.
• Worked with Siouxsie and the Banshees from around 1980 to 1982 and appears on the Live CD and VHS “Nocturne” and also the album “Hyaena”.
• The Cure were originally called, Easy Cure
• Lead singer of English band The Cure

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