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Simon Gallup

1960-06-01 Duxhurst, Surrey, England, UK

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Biografia

Simon Johnathon Gallup (born 1 June 1960) is an English musician and bassist with the alternative rock band The Cure. He is the second longest-serving member of the band after lead vocalist/guitarist Robert Smith. Born in Duxhurst, Surrey, Simon's family moved to Horley in 1961 where he attended Horley Infants and Junior Schools until 1971, followed by Horley Comprehensive School (now Oakwood secondary school) to 1976. Between 1976 and 1978 he worked in a plastics factory and became the bass player for local punk band Lockjaw, who later evolved into the Magazine Spies (1979–1980), also known as the Mag/Spys. Lockjaw and the Mag/Spys played regular live shows with Easy Cure and later the Cure between 1977 and 1979, and after collaborating in the studio on the Cult Hero recording sessions in October 1979, both Gallup and keyboardist Matthieu Hartley left the Mag/Spys to join the Cure. Former Mag/Spys Gallup, Hartley and Stuart Curran later performed together under the name of the Cry and later Fools Dance during Gallup's hiatus from the Cure between 1982 and 1984. Gallup first joined the Cure in 1979, replacing Michael Dempsey on bass guitar. He also has been credited for occasionally playing the keyboards, particularly after Matthieu Hartley's departure in 1980. He took over keyboard lines for many of the songs that Hartley played. Examples of songs he played keyboard on live include "At Night", "A Forest", "A Strange Day" and "Pornography". During "Cold" he multi-tasked playing bass guitar and bass pedals. On the Swing Tour in 1996, he played twelve-string acoustic guitar on "This Is a Lie". On the Dream Tour in 2000 he played a Fender Bass VI on "There Is No If". Gallup is also credited with singing lead vocals for a demo for "Violin Song". Gallup first performed on the Cure albums that make up "The Dark Trilogy": Seventeen Seconds, Faith, and Pornography. During the Pornography Tour in 1982, a series of incidents prompted Gallup to leave the Cure, including an incident on 27 May 1982 after a live performance at Hall Tivoli, Strasbourg, France when he got into a fist fight with Robert Smith at a nightclub in Strasbourg reportedly over a bar tab. Gallup has said that "I was about to leave when some guy came up and told me I hadn't paid for my drinks. He thought I was Robert. I was knackered but the bloke took me up to the bar and Robert appeared to see what was going on. I hit him, he responded and we had a fight". ... Source: Article "Simon Gallup" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Películas

The Cure - Live At Corona Capital 2023 2023-11-19
The Cure - Shows Of A Lost World At United Center, Chicago Self 2023-06-10
The Cure - Primavera Sound São Paulo 2023 self 2023-12-03
The Cure - Shows Of A Lost World At Wembley Arena, London Self 2022-12-13
Untitled: The Cure Documentary Self 2021-01-28
The Cure: Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2014 Self - Musician 2020-11-10
The Cure - Disintegration In Sydney Self 2019-05-30
The Cure - Flow Festival 2019 Self 2019-08-11
The Cure - Live At Glastonbury 2019 Self 2019-06-30
The Cure - CURÆTION-25: From There to Here | From Here to There Self - Bass 2019-06-24
The Cure: Glastonbury 2019 Self 2019-07-30
The Cure : Live Rock en Seine Self 2019-08-23
The Cure - Anniversary 1978 - 2018 - Live In Hyde Park Self - Bass 2019-07-03
The Cure: Voodoo Festival Live Self 2013-11-01
The Cure: NME Big Gig Self 2009-03-03
The Cure: The Strange Museum Self - Bass 2008-01-01
The Cure: Coca-Cola Live @ MTV Self - Bass 2008-10-11
The Cure: 4 Tour at Madison Square Garden Self 2008-03-06
The Cure: 4Play in Charlotte Self 2008-06-16
The Cure: Live In Paris 2008 Self - bass 2008-03-12
The Cure - Festival 2005 Self 2006-12-05
The Cure - Curiosa Festival Self 2004-08-09
The Cure - Trilogy Self 2002-11-10
The Cure - Greatest Hits Videos Self (archive footage) 2001-12-10
The Cure - Bizarre-Festival Köln Self 1998-08-22
The Cure - Show Self - Bass Guitar 1993-01-01
The Cure: MTV Unplugged Self 1991-03-03
The Cure - Play Out Self 1991-10-30
The Cure: Picture Show Self 1991-08-13
The Cure In Orange Self 1987-10-13
The Cure : Staring At The Sea - The Images Self 1986-05-06
The Cure: Apeldoorn Self - Bass Guitar 1980-07-18
The Cure: Live in Boston Self 1980-04-20
The Cure Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 2019 Self