Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure, has died. He was 65.<\/p>\n
The band announced on its website on Dec. 26 that Bamonte died \u201cafter a short illness at home over Christmas.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cQuiet, intense, intuitive constant and hugely creative, \u2018Teddy\u2019 was a warm hearted and vital part of the Cure story,\u201d the band said. <\/p>\n
The London-born Bamonte began touring with the Cure as a guitar tech and assistant in 1984, then joined the band full-time in 1990. He performed over 400 shows with the group and recorded on the albums \u201cWish,\u201d \u201cWild Mood Swings,\u201d \u201cBloodflowers,\u201d \u201cAcoustic Hits\u201d and \u201cThe Cure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bamonte parted ways with the Cure after 14 years, later performing with the group Love Amongst Ruin. He returned to the Cure in 2022 for \u201canother 90 shows, some of the best in the band\u2019s history,\u201d the group said, including the Nov. 1, 2024, London show documented on the concert film \u201cThe Show of a Lost World.\u201d <\/p>\n
As a member of the Cure, Bamonte was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. The band is still scheduled for a run of European festivals and headline shows in 2026. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur thoughts and condolences are with all his family,\u201d the group said. \u201cHe will be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perry Bamonte, guitarist and keyboardist for the Cure, has died. He was 65. The band announced on its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[23983,59027,11416,59026,59030,7244,59031,59028,1073,48,52,51,47,50,49,59029,27644,59032,1860,8843,3660],"class_list":["post-110007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-album","tag-bamonte","tag-band","tag-cure","tag-european-festival","tag-group","tag-guitar-tech","tag-guitarist","tag-home","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-perry-bamonte","tag-roll-hall","tag-short-illness","tag-show","tag-way","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}