“Gone” by The Cure

"Gone!" was the fourth and last single The Cure pulled from Wild Mood Swings, their tenth album, going out on 2 December 1996 with a stack of remixes on the B-sides. Robert Smith wrote the words and sings them, and the music is credited to the whole band: Smith, Perry Bamonte, Jason Cooper, Simon Gallup and Roger O'Donnell.

It's the Cure with a horn section, John Barclay and Steve Sidwell on trumpet, Richard Edwards on trombone and Will Gregory on sax, and Smith mixed it with engineer Steve Lyon. It stalled at 60 in the UK, and even after an airing on Later with Jools Holland it rarely made the setlist; the video was shot at a Los Angeles show that August. Clash later filed it next to "The 13th" as one of the band's love-it-or-hate-it songs, proof they still liked to fiddle with the rules.

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