Post by ianPost by ZinzanI assume The Cure are originally from London. Did Robert Smith
"followed" eighties artists like Morrissey or Dave Gahan and now live
in USA ?
No, The Cure formed in Crawley although Robert was born in Blackpool. He
still lives in the UK - possibly still on the south coast somewhere (maybe
Bognor Regis)
Different members of the band (both past and present) were born in all sorts
of places, to be perfectly honest. I seem to recall at least two of them
being born outside of England and then moving to England later, actually. I
think it was Michael Dempsey, who was born in Salisbury, Zimbabwe (Formerly
Southern Rhodesia when he was a little baby in the late 50's), and Boris
Williams who was born in Versailles, France in 1957 and actually lived in
Yugoslavia until 1963.
They of course moved to England later, though. As a boy, Robert Smith lived
in three different sections of England, but in Crawley (South of London and
east of Kent) for the longest period of time. He was born in Blackpool
(Lancashire) and lived in Horley (Surrey) for a while. Blackpool is along
the water up North and is nowhere near London, although England is certainly
not an incredibly large country. Surrey is down South right beneath London
and Croydon and above both East and West Sussex.
Smith grew up near the Irish Sea in a more Northern part of the country, yet
he has spent his adulthood much closer to the Straight of Dover and the
English Channel in the South of England, above France. (Probably part of why
he's fond of visiting Paris and Versailles and has spoke of it in
interviews.)
As a very young boy he resided above Wales, in a totally different part of
England. So, no, he was not born in or near London. He instead moved quite
close to London in his boyhood at the age of about seven accoring to
Barbarian/Smith/and Sutherland's Ten Imaginary Years, of which Robert
himself co-wrote.
JN