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LAY IT DOWN, CLOWNS! THE BEASTIE BOYS TAKE OVER?
ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
I read the article on the Cure in the December ’86 issue of your druginduced ramblings. NOW HEAR THIS. Suicide and killing people are rotten song subjects and poor inspirations. The Cure have recorded nothing—nothing— that isn’t crap, isn’t self-indulgent or isn’t self-pitying.