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The Cure's Lol Tolhurst: A Dose Of Keyboard Fever

Mark Dery, Keyboard, August 1987

EVER SINCE schoolmates Robert Smith, Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst, and Michael Dempsey formed Easy Cure in 1976 – the name was eventually shortened to the Cure – Smith's fright-wigged shadow has fallen heavily over the band.

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