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What's The Big Idea? Robert Smith's Conception of the Cure

J.D. Considine, Musician, July 1989

ON THE whole, the average pop fan's image of the Cure is pretty close to the way the band appears in the video to 'Fascination Street', the first American single from Disintegration. Shot in the haze of what seems to be a mist-enshrouded alley somewhere in the depths of London, it shows the five band members all dressed in elaborate layers of black, performing with forlorn intensity as the dry-ice fog whips around them.

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