The Cure – A Night Like This
A Night Like This is track eight on The Head on the Door, released 13 August 1985, with Ron Howe on guest sax.
The Cure – A Forest
The Cure's A Forest (Seventeen Seconds, 1980): Gallup bass first, Smith chase, Fiction single, UK No. 31.
5 things you didn’t know about The Cure
Robert Smith nearly taught English, The Cure were banned over orange juice, and "A Forest" grew from a wrong-key keyboard part.
The Cure – Delay, makeup, and songs that filled arenas
The Cure formed in Crawley around Robert Smith and grew from post-punk gloom into a catalogue that could fill arenas without dropping the grey eyeliner.
The Cure – A Forest
In January 1980 at Morgan Studios in Willesden, Simon Gallup's bass opened A Forest, the Cure's first British chart single.
The Cure – Close To Me
On 13 September 1985 Fiction released Close to Me, the second single from The Head on the Door, with a brass line the album version does not have.
The Cure – Killing An Arab
Recorded on 20 September 1978 and issued that December on Small Wonder, Killing an Arab was the Cure's first single, a two-minute reading of Camus.
The Cure – Just Like Heaven
Released on 5 October 1987, Just Like Heaven was recorded at Studio Miraval in France and became the Cure's first American top 40 single.