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THE CURE
(UK)

12 July 2001

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Robert Smith, Perry Bamonte, Simon Gallup, Jason Cooper and Roger O´Donnel talk about music censorship and freedom of musical expression.

Freemuse met the band just before they entered the stage on Roskilde Festival, on the1st of July 2001.

Part I
For you Robert Smith, what is the worst form of musical repression generally?

Part II
Should there be limitations to musical expression?

Part III
The Cure's most controversial song "Killing an arab" based on the book "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, was banned in some contries during the Gulf war in 1991. What are your feelings about that?

Part IV
Robert Smith, in the punk era many bands were victims of censorship. What did it feel like at the time for you?

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