{"id":337235,"date":"2025-12-26T22:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337235\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T22:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:08:05","slug":"guitarist-and-keyboard-player-perry-bamonte-dies-aged-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/337235\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitarist and keyboard player Perry Bamonte dies aged 65"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Perry Bamonte re-joined The Cure in 2022 for more live shows having initially been part of the band’s roadcrew from 1984<\/p>\n

The Cure guitarist and keyboard player Perry Bamonte has died aged 65, the band has said.<\/p>\n

In a statement on The Cure’s website,<\/a> the band said the British musician died “after a short illness at home over Christmas”, saying they were making the announcement with “enormous sadness”.<\/p>\n

It read: “Quiet, intensive, intuitive, constant and hugely creative, ‘Teddy’ was a warm hearted and vital part of The Cure story.”<\/p>\n

Having been part of The Cure’s road crew from 1984, Bamonte was asked to join the band after the departure of keyboardist Roger O’Donnell in 1990.<\/p>\n

He went on to play guitar, keyboard and bass on five studio albums, featuring on tracks including Friday I’m In Love, High and A Letter To Elise.<\/p>\n

Bamonte also appeared on The Cure’s live albums Paris and Show, both released in 1993, and performed at more than 400 shows over the course of 14 years.<\/p>\n

Bamonte later became the bass player in supergroup Love Amongst Ruin.<\/p>\n

He re-joined The Cure in 2022, playing with them until 2024.<\/p>\n

Former Cure drummer Lol Tolhurst, posted a tribute on Instagram, saying: “So sad to hear about Perry Bamonte passing… Farewell Teddy.”<\/p>\n

Formed in Crawley in 1976 by lead singer Robert Smith, Tolhurst and Michael Dempsey, The Cure have had a regularly changing line-up, and are known for their heavy influence on goth, post-punk and indie music. <\/p>\n

In 2019, Balmonte was present when The Cure were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

Balmonte also had a keen interest in fly fishing and built a career as an illustrator, contributing to the magazine Fly Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Perry Bamonte re-joined The Cure in 2022 for more live shows having initially been part of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-337235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}