The Cure's guitarist and keyboard player dies

The guitarist and keyboard subordinate for The Cure, Perry Bamonte, has died.

The set said Bamonte died aged 65 "after a abbreviated unwellness astatine home", successful a connection connected their website, which they said was posted with "enormous sadness".

The connection said: "Quiet, intensive, intuitive, changeless and hugely creative, 'Teddy' was a lukewarm hearted and captious portion of The Cure story.

"Looking aft the set from 1984 done 1989, helium became a afloat subordinate of The Cure successful 1990, playing guitar, six drawstring bass and keyboard connected the Wish (1992), Wild Mood Swings (1996), Bloodflowers (2000), Acoustic Hits (2001), and The Cure (2004) albums, arsenic good arsenic performing much than 400 shows implicit 14 years.

"He re-joined The Cure successful 2022, playing different 90 shows, immoderate of the champion successful the band's history, culminating with The Show Of A Lost World performance successful London, (on) November 1, 2024.

"Our thoughts and condolences are with each his family, helium volition beryllium precise greatly missed."

Bamonte had primitively been portion of the band's roadcrew from 1984, earlier helium was asked to articulation the set pursuing the departure of keyboardist Roger O'Donnell.

Thereafter, helium played connected immoderate of the band's best-known tracks, including Friday I'm In Love, High and A Letter To Elise.

He besides featured connected The Cure's 1983 unrecorded albums Paris and Show.

His ex-bandmate, drummer Lol Tolhurst, said successful a idiosyncratic tribute posted connected Instagram: "So bittersweet to perceive astir Perry Bamonte passing. Cindy (Tolhurst's wife) and I nonstop our condolences to each that knew him. Farewell Teddy."

Bamonte was besides the bass subordinate successful supergroup Love Amongst Ruin, alongside erstwhile Placebo drummer Steve Hewitt and Julian Cope collaborator Donald Ross Skinner.

He was known to person a keen involvement successful alert sportfishing and built a vocation arsenic an illustrator, contributing to the mag Fly Culture.

Formed successful 1976 by pb vocalist Robert Smith and Tolhurst successful Crawley, The Cure person seen regularly changes successful line-up.

They are wide regarded arsenic among the astir influential 1980s bands successful the indie/goth country and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame successful 2019.