Robert Smith

Robert Smith Guitarist, Vocalist (born April 21, 1959) is the driving force behind The Cure, an English band generally described as goth, but considered by many as difficult to classify into one genre. Smith has written or co-written the bulk of the group's music and lyrics in a career spanning 25 years. His hair is legendary. His lyrics are often haunting and could be better described as poetry set to music.

Smith married Mary Poole in 1988.

Discography

• The Demo Album (1978)
• Three Imaginary Boys (1979)
• Boys Don't Cry (1980)
• Seventeen Seconds (1980)
• Faith (1981)
• Pornography (1982)
• The Top (1984)
• Head on the Door (1985)
• Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (1987)
• Disintegration (1989)
• Mixed Up (1990)
• Wish (1992)
• Wild Mood Swings (1996)
• Bloodflowers (2000)

See Gothic Rock for more info.

And other important guitar innovators worthy of serious study:

• Tom Verlaine
• Eddie Van Halen
• Dave Navarro
• Daniel Ash

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Robert Smith was also the name of the second United States Secretary of the Navy from July 27, 1801 to March 4, 1809.