Live in Japan (1985)

Original title

The Cure: Live in Japan

Directed by

Toshifumi Takagi, Yasumune Muramatsu

Genre

pop rock

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 13m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a concert film of the English rock band the Cure performing live in Japan in 1985. It captures the band during their mid-1980s era with Robert Smith as the frontman.

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What happens

The English rock band the Cure has released fourteen studio albums, seven live albums, three remix albums, seven compilation albums, eight box sets, twelve extended plays and forty-seven singles on Fiction Records and Geffen Records. They have also released twelve video albums and forty-four music videos. Formed in 1976, the Cure grew out of a band known as Malice. Malice formed in January 1976 and underwent several line-up changes and a name change to Easy Cure before The Cure was founded in May 1978. The Cure's original line-up consisted of guitarist/vocalist Robert Smith, drummer Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst and bassist Michael Dempsey. The band has continued through various line-ups; Smith is the group's only remaining original member. The line-up as of 2024 consisted of Smith, bassist Simon Gallup, keyboard player Roger O'Donnell, multi-instrumentalist Perry Bamonte, guitarist Reeves Gabrels and drummer Jason Cooper. The Cure's debut album, Three Imaginary Boys (1979), reached number 44 on the UK Albums Chart. The next two albums, Seventeen Seconds (1980) and Faith (1981), were top 20 hits in the UK, reaching number 20 and number 14 respectively. Between 1982 and 1996, the Cure released seven studio albums, all of which reached the Top 10 in the UK. The most successful of these was Wish (1992) which reached number one in the UK and number two on the US Billboard 200. They released the next album Wild Mood Swings in 1996. The following three studio albums – Bloodflowers (2000), The Cure (2004) and 4:13 Dream (2008) – had mixed success, reaching numbers 14, 8 and 33 in the UK respectively. The group released their fourteenth album, Songs of a Lost World, in 2024, the group's first new album in sixteen years. It was their first album since Wish to reach number one in the UK, and was also one of the fastest selling albums of 2024, having at one point outsold the entire top 10 of the week combined. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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