43 years ago: THE CURE – “Let’s Go to Bed”
Automatic translation. Improvements are constantly being worked on.
Exactly 43 years ago to the day, The Cure’ssingle “Let’s Go to Bed” was released on November 23, 1982. Did you already know these 5 facts?
★ After the sombre “Pornography”, Robert Smith returned from his month-long retreat in the Lake District to write “Let’s Go to Bed”.
★ The song represents a kind of antithesis to what The Cure represented at the time.
★ When he played the song for his label, they were stunned: “You can’t be serious,” he later recalled in an interview with Rolling Stone. “But I wanted to do something really happy.”
★ The music video is the first collaboration between The Cure and Tim Pope.
★ “Let’s Go to Bed” reached number 32 in the US charts and 44 in the UK.
Watch the video here:
