LOS ANGELES, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Perry Bamonte, keyboardist and guitarist in The Cure, has died at 65, the English indie rock band confirmed through their official website on Friday.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the band wrote that Bamonte died “after a short illness at home” on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n
Sign up here.<\/a><\/p>\n “It is with enormous sadness that we confirm the death of our great friend and bandmate Perry Bamonte who passed away after a short illness at home over Christmas,” the statement said, adding he was a “vital part of The Cure story.”<\/p>\n The statement said Bamonte was a full-time member of The Cure since 1990, playing guitar, six-string bass, and keyboards, and performed in more than 400 shows.<\/p>\n Bamonte, born in London, England, in 1960, joined the band’s road crew in 1984, working alongside his younger brother Daryl, who worked as tour manager for The Cure.<\/p>\n Bamonte first worked as an assistant to co-founder and lead vocalist, Robert Smith, before becoming a full member after keyboardist Roger O’Donnell left the band in 1990.<\/p>\n Bamonte’s first album with The Cure was “Wish” in 1992. He continued to work with them on the next three albums.<\/p>\n He also had various acting roles in movies: “Judge Dredd,” “About Time” and “The Crow.”<\/p>\n Reporting by Danielle Broadway; editing by Diane Craft<\/p>\n Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n Purchase Licensing Rights<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n Danielle Broadway covers topics that range from film premieres, celebrity news, Hollywood legal proceedings, theater, press junkets, enterprise stories and more at Thomson Reuters. She has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in English Literature from Cal State Long Beach and previously worked at the Los Angeles Times and freelanced at Teen Vogue, USA Today, Black Girl Nerds and other outlets. Danielle won an LA Press Club award for her Los Angeles Times cover story about South Los Angeles representation in the show “Insecure” and is a GLAAD Media Award nominee for her work on the PBS series “Subcultured” episode about the gay rodeo. She is a member of the African American Film Critics Association, Critics Choice Association, LA Press Club and GALECA (LGBTQ+ Critics).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Perry Bamonte, keyboardist and guitarist in The Cure, has died at 65,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[129955,129956,82519,84892,108144,82500,84110,94004,82532,99595,83113,18,85475,117,110694,45748,87211,87212,106026,19,17,83786,88835,88836,337,82524,13241,41577,17827,82510,12368,83126,30150,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-253245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-amed","9":"tag-amed1","10":"tag-amers","11":"tag-ccos","12":"tag-cleb","13":"tag-cmpny","14":"tag-cycs","15":"tag-destoukdnm","16":"tag-destouktpm","17":"tag-destousenm","18":"tag-dli","19":"tag-eire","20":"tag-ent","21":"tag-entertainment","22":"tag-filmtv","23":"tag-gen","24":"tag-heca","25":"tag-hlthse","26":"tag-hprd","27":"tag-ie","28":"tag-ireland","29":"tag-lif","30":"tag-mdia","31":"tag-msic","32":"tag-music","33":"tag-namer","34":"tag-obit","35":"tag-pro","36":"tag-pub","37":"tag-publ","38":"tag-show","39":"tag-soci","40":"tag-tmt","41":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115788892555199309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}