And the song was the wedding gift that kept on giving, no doubt creating a nice nest egg for the Smiths with royalties from later hit cover versions by 311, American Idol winner Candice Glover, and especially Adele, who recorded it for 21, an album that sold 31 million copies worldwide. It was also the band's biggest British single, peaking at No. Robert's wedding present to Mary, sometimes known as "Love Song," hit No.
This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. After slugging it out with a revolving Cure lineup since 1976, Robert Smith - with his spidery hair and trademark smeared scrawl of crimson lipstick - had somehow become one of music's most unlikely and reluctant rock stars. But it was 1989's Disintegration - the culmination of all of Smith's stylistic experiments, simultaneously gorgeous and raw, melancholy and exuberant, grandiose and intimate - that transformed the Cure into stadium headliners. The Cure broke out of the post-punk underground in the mid-'80s with The Head on the Door and their double-disc follow-up, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.
Thirty years ago this week, on May 2, 1989, the Cure released the magnum opus that Kyle from South Park once rightfully declared " the best album EVER! " While the Cure's epic eighth studio effort, Disintegration, was among the band's gloomiest and doomiest (frontman Robert Smith always considered it an unofficial companion to 1982's intensely, brutally dark Pornography), it ironically yielded the band's sweetest - and most commercially successful - single, "Lovesong."