The Famous Robert Smith

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I started listening to The Cure when I was about seven or eight. It had been on my brothers boom box as he was putting on eye liner and ratting his freshly black dyed hair up. I loved it, my once high school brother getting dressed up for school! My brother was a father figure in the household because we didn't have a dad, so I looked up to him for inspiration back in those days. When he moved out, I held on to my brothers kind advice and his love for The Cure. I grew up collecting Robert Smith items such as posters, cassette tapes and when they came out my first CD Disenagration. I didn't bother reading about Robert Smith at the time because I "thought" I knew about him well enough to know every line in all his songs. Two years ago, I was playing The Cure for my newly found boyfriend who knows everything (well just about). He started collecting articles for me about Robert Smith. I am now in the process of learning about his crazy fun life. He had no intentions of being famous. Robert Smith had severe depression and mood swings. He even helped out Soixie and the Banshees. Things I didn't know that just excite me to love his music more.