The Cure’s Robert Smith serenades wife on stage at Hollywood Bowl performance

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12 Jun 2023, 15:29

The Cure frontman Robert Smith proved to fans that his marriage of over three decades to his wife, Mary Poole, is as strong as ever. 

In the closing moments of Plainsong, the opener to the band’s classic 1989 album Disintegration, Smith was seen turning offstage and locking eyes with his wife to sing the lines: “Sometimes you make me feel / Like I'm living at the edge of the world / Like I'm living at the edge of the world / "It's just the way I smile/.

Smith then turned away from his partner since secondary school and thanking the crowd at the first of three shows they played at the famed Hollywood Bowl on the 24th May. 

Frank Padilla, who captured this moment on his phone, said he: “...happen[ed] to be at probably the best if not the only angle you could have seen this,” and as a result, suddenly saw his profile inundated with over 150k views on the video as well as hundreds of replies and retweets.

This moment is not only of interest to fans of the band and Smith for its touching sentimentality, but also because the song itself is not known to be specifically about Poole. 

Fans probably cite the album’s highest charting single Lovesong, which was dedicated as a wedding present to Poole at their 1988 ceremony, as a more obvious choice.

Even the band’s arguably most famous song Just Like Heaven, which featured Poole in the music video, may have also been a little too on the nose for Smith’s heartfelt act. 

Whatever extra significance these lyrics now have between the pair is now only for fans to guess, but we can all only hope to be as happy as these two clearly are together!

This sweet moment comes after The Cure released a remastered version of their behind-the-scenes documentary, Play Out, from 1992.

Play Out was directed by Pete Fowler and focused on the band as they played some club shows and headlined London’s Wembley Arena. 

A synopsis for the two-hour film reads: “Play Out follows the band as they perform new songs at a club gig, play Wembley Arena, appear on the Jonathan Ross show, rehearse for and perform their legendary MTV Unplugged show and receive the award for Best British Group at The Brit Awards.”