Perry Bamontemusician of the British group The Cure, died this Friday in 65 years old, as the group reports in a statement on its official website.
“It is with great sadness that we confirm the passing of our great friend and band member. Perry Bamontedied following a brief illness at his home during the Christmas holidays,” the publication notes.
The multi-instrumentalist was born in London in 1960 and began his musical career as a bassist at the age of 19, joining drummer Paul Langwith to the guitar duo of The Plan, who composed Robert Marlow and Vince Clarke (future member of Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure).
Before officially joining The remedyBamonte was Robert Smith’s Personal Assistant and Guitar Techniciansinger and leader, during the 1984 tour.
Described by the group as “calm, intense, intuitive, constant and extremely creative”, Bamonte was a essential member of The Cure since 1990, date on which he fully joined the group after having collaborated between 1984 and 1989.
Bamonte participated in the albums Wish, Wild Mood Swings, Bloodflowers, Acoustic Hits and The Cure, where he recorded guitar, six-string bass and keyboard. Additionally, he performed over 400 concerts with the band over 14 years.
Although left the group in 2005 to devote himself to illustration and fly fishing, he was present during the group’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2019. Finally, he returned in 2022 for the world tour Shows from a lost world.
“Our thoughts and condolences go out to his entire family, he will be greatly missed,” the group’s message concludes.
In 2024, the group returns in style with Songs from a lost world, an album composed of three unreleased songs (All I Am, Warsong, Drone: Nodrone) and five others (Alone, Endsong, and nothing is forever, a fragile thing and I can never say goodbye) who were already part of the repertoire from the group’s last tour.
For his Robert Smithsinger, composer and soul of the group, the the disco was some kind of rare bird.
To create it, Smith put together a few designs with songs he wrote almost ten years agohe showed them to others and made an album with just that material.
“It’s something unusual, it hasn’t happened for years,” the musician said in 2024 during an interview with Matt Everitt, in which he also highlighted that many of the songs from the first 15 years of his career were composed with Simon Gallup (bassist), Roger O’Donnell (keyboardist) and Perry Bamonte himself.
“Often the strange things we do are not mine, but theirs. I wrote the lyrics but the music comes from them. They encourage me to write in a different way,” he said.
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