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The Cure: Disintegration

Chris Roberts, New Musical Express, 6 May 1989

ROBERT SMITH reckons Disintegration isn't a miserable record at all. "At all," he says. Right. Meanwhile Van Gogh says Starry Night was a cartoon, Francis Bacon claims he's a disco king, Joan of Arc announces she was only cutting down on heating costs and Keats comes clean that his coughs were thinly-veiled laughter.

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