“How Beautiful You Are” by The Cure

"How Beautiful You Are" comes from Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, the Cure's 1987 double album, cut at Studio Miraval in Correns, France, and put out by Fiction. Robert Smith produced it with David M. Allen, sang lead and wrote the words, while the music is credited to the whole band: Smith, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson, Lol Tolhurst and Boris Williams.

Smith and Thompson both play electric guitar here and share the keyboards with Tolhurst, Gallup holds down the bass, and Williams handles drums and percussion. Smith pitched the record as a grab bag of the old tricks he liked best alongside things the band had never dared before, and it was the album that finally pried the American mainstream open for them.

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