At 66, Robert Smith Reveals His Ten Favourite Music Albums

🌟 The Albums That Built a Legend: Inside Robert Smith’s Lifelong Love Affair With Music 🌟

In this deeply moving and beautifully reflective journey, we explore the ten albums that shaped Robert Smith — the quiet visionary behind The Cure — as he turns 66 and looks back on the music that defined his soul. From the icy echoes of post-punk to the fragile poetry of the late ’60s, these records were more than inspiration… they were his refuge, his teachers, his compass.

Discover how a young boy from Crawley absorbed sounds that would one day help him build an entire emotional universe — a universe millions of fans still live in today. This video takes you deep into the heartbeat of Smith’s musical identity, revealing how each album became a guiding light through youth, fame, loss, creativity, and the quiet persistence of a life shaped by sound.

See how Bowie taught him silence, how Nick Drake taught him honesty, how Joy Division taught him discipline, and how the Buzzcocks taught him motion. Through genius, fragility, and fearless experimentation, these albums didn’t just influence him — they formed him.

This is more than a list.
This is the blueprint of a lifetime spent listening, feeling, and transforming pain into beauty.

💡 What You’ll Learn:
✔️ How Robert Smith’s favourite albums shaped The Cure’s most iconic sounds
✔️ The emotional and creative lessons he carried from each record
✔️ Why these ten albums still matter to listeners who grew up in the golden eras of rock
✔️ How vulnerability, discipline, and chaos shaped Smith’s unique musical identity
✔️ The surprising inspirations behind his darkest and brightest works
✔️ Why certain sounds stay with us for decades — becoming the soundtrack to our lives
✔️ How your musical heroes were once students of the same albums you loved

Whether you grew up with vinyl buzzing under your fingertips, remember hearing Bowie on late-night radio, or lived through the early post-punk explosion, this story will rekindle the memories, the feelings, and the magic that only music can preserve. It’s a reminder that while time passes, the songs that shape us never truly fade.

Dive into this emotional journey as we discover how Robert Smith — the poet of melancholy — was shaped, strengthened, and inspired by the albums that whispered to him through the years. Let his reflections help you rediscover the music that once defined you, too.

Join us as we uncover how these ten albums built the man who taught the world how to listen.

🎯 Your journey through sound begins now.
Because the music that shapes you lives forever — without permission, without apology.

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