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The Cure’s Robert Smith on Rock Hall Induction and ‘F-cking Great’ New Album"Despite my best efforts at being alternative, we'd been subsumed into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame," Smith jokes When the Cure’s Robert Smith took the stage during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Barclays Center on Friday, he kept things succinct. “As Trent [Reznor, who introduced the band] said, it’s 40 years since our first album came out. It doesn’t seem like that. And in that time, there’s obviously been a lot of people who’ve played a part in the Cure story, for better or worse. And I’m not going to stand here and read off a load of names because that’s… I shouldn’t say too much, really, but that’s quite tedious. And I’m no good with stories. I’m a very bad communicator.” Smith was more forthcoming when Rolling Stone caught up with him backstage, with the goth/post-punk veteran discussing his initial reservations with the awards show, the upcoming 30th anniversary of his Disintegration and a new Cure album that’s currently in the works. How does it feel to be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? What were your reservations? Simon [Gallup] said we should do it because people will see us onstage, know who we are, and we’ll play songs for them. That’s kind of what the band does. He made the band come back down to Earth and stop theorizing about what it really means and what it represents. We’ll just play some songs to people. They’ll either like us or they won’t. Then we’ll go and have a beer. He’s a much more down to earth character than I. I think sometimes I worry too much. How’s the next album going? A lot of people are excited about it. It’s so dark. It’s incredibly intense. And I’ve waited 10 years to do something that means something. It’s going to work really well. I’m not sure how much of it we’ll play this summer at festivals. It’s not really festival music. The songs are like 10 minutes, 12 minutes long. We recorded 19 songs. So I have no idea what to do now. The others are saying, “Triple album!” I’m saying, no let’s not. I’ll pick six or maybe eight songs and do like a single album. But I think it will delight our hardcore fans. And probably really, really infuriate everyone else. At my age, I’m still doom and gloom. When do you want to put this out? Are you gonna do Disintegration in the U.S.? This year is your 40th anniversary. What does that mean to you? The Cure have become a legendary band. You could do three nights at Madison Square Garden. Are the Cure in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?everyone that voted for us. It's a surprise. It's a very nice surprise to be inducted into the Rock Hall.
Which Cure members were inducted?The Cure were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.
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. Who did Trent Reznor induct Hall of Fame?Trent Reznor delivered a raw and uncompromising acceptance speech on behalf of the seven Nine Inch Nails' members inducted into the hall — Atticus Ross, Robin Finck, Allesandro Cortini, Ilan Rubin, Danny Lohner, and Chris Vrenna. “Hello, everyone. What a disorienting, strange year we find ourselves in,” Reznor muse.
Is Depeche Mode in the Hall of Fame?Depeche Mode are among the new inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, alongside Notorious B.I.G., Nine Inch Nails, Whitney Houston, T. Rex and the Doobie Brothers.
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