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The Cure: 'Just Like Heaven'

Johnny Black, Blender, October 2003

VITAL STATISTICS:
SONG: 'Just Like Heaven'
Artist: The Cure
Label: Elektra

Performers: Robert Smith : guitar/vocals; Porl Thompson - guitar; Lol Tolhurst - keyboards; Simon Gallup – Bass; Boris Williams – drums
Producer: Dave Allen/Robert Smith
Released: October 1988
Highest chart position: 40


WHO’S WHO

Robert Smith: Lipstick-smeared, soccer-loving, hard-drinking, literature-loving founder/leader of The Cure

Mary Poole: Smith’s childhood girlfriend, inspirational muse, and wife of fifteen years.

Tim Pope: legendarily eccentric English pop video maker who graduated to Hollywood movie making in 1996 with The Crow – City Of Angels

Total word count of piece: 1130

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