Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died. He was 65.<\/p>\n
The band made the announcement on their official website this morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with enormous sadness that we confirm the death of our great friend and bandmate Perry Bamonte, who passed away after a short illness at home over Christmas,\u201d the band wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuiet, intense, intuitive, constant and hugely creative, \u2018Teddy\u2019 was a warm hearted and vital part of The Cure story,\u201d the statement continued. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur thoughts and condolences are with all his family. He will be very greatly missed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bamonte worked with the band in various roles from 1984 to 1989, including as roadie and guitar tech. He officially joined the band in 1990, when keyboardist Roger O\u2019Donnell quit. <\/p>\n
It was then that he became a full-time member of the group, playing guitar, six-string bass and keyboard.<\/p>\n
Having joined just after the band\u2019s mainstream breakthrough, 1989\u2019s \u201cDisintegration,\u201d Bamonte is featured on a number of The Cure\u2019s albums, including 1992\u2019s \u201cWish\u201d \u2014 which features the career-defining hits \u2033Friday I\u2019m in Love\u2033 and \u201cHigh\u201d \u2014 as well as the 1996\u2019s \u201cWild Mood Swings,\u201d 2000\u2019s \u201cBloodflowers\u201d and 2004\u2019s self-titled release.<\/p>\n
Bamonte was fired from The Cure by its singer and leader Robert Smith in 2005. <\/p>\n
At that point in time, he had performed at over 400 shows across 14 years. Bamonte rejoined the group in recent years, touring with the band in 2022 for another 90 gigs.<\/p>\n
In 2019, Bamonte was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame alongside the rest of The Cure.<\/p>\n
His last performance with the band was on November 1, 2024 in London for a special one-off event to launch their latest album and first in 16 years, \u201cSongs of a Lost World.\u201d <\/p>\n
The concert was filmed for \u201cThe Cure: The Show of a Lost World,\u201d a film released in cinemas globally this month. It is also available to purchase on Blu-ray and DVD.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press described \u201cSongs of a Lost World\u201d as \u201clush and deeply orchestral, swelling and powerful\u201d \u2014 one of the best of the band\u2019s career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died. He was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,157,43,40,38,41,39,1745],"class_list":["post-203491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-music","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}