Roger O'Donnell
Acting
Biography
Roger O'Donnell (born 29 October 1955) is an English keyboardist best known for his work with The Cure. O'Donnell has also performed in The Psychedelic Furs, Thompson Twins, and Berlin, as well as having an active solo career. O'Donnell was born in East London into a musical family, next to the piano in his parents' London home. O'Donnell attended art school but left to pursue a career as a professional musician, with his first paying gig coming in 1976, at Oxford Town Hall backing legendary British pop icon Arthur Brown. O'Donnell joined the Thompson Twins as a live keyboardist in July 1983, playing alongside future Cure bandmate and drummer Boris Williams. Both completed the Side Kicks Tour in 1983 and also played with the band on the Into the Gap/Out of the Gap tours in 1984. In the early 1980s, while with the Thompson Twins, Berlin, and the Psychedelic Furs, O'Donnell was a big fan of synthesisers produced by Sequential Circuits, which produced such classics as the Prophet 5, Prophet T8, and Prophet VS. While on tour with the Psychedelic Furs, O'Donnell set the record for having the most Sequential models onstage at one time. O'Donnell first joined The Cure in 1987, after being longtime friends with drummer Boris Williams. He played with The Cure during their Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me tour, though he did not contribute to the album. (He does however appear in the music videos for "Just Like Heaven" and "Hot Hot Hot!!!" and appeared in tour promo art.) With O'Donnell on keyboards, Porl Thompson was able to focus on guitar full-time, instead of assisting Tolhurst on keyboards for many of the songs. Some of O'Donnell's performances from this tour can be heard on the deluxe edition of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. For the next album Disintegration, O'Donnell became a fully integrated member of the band, and his songwriting contributions can be heard on the songs "Out of Mind" and "Fear of Ghosts," which are the B-Sides to the hit singles "Lullaby" and "Lovesong", respectively. He is also featured on the live album from this period, Entreat. Following The Cure's Prayer Tour in 1989, O'Donnell left the band in 1990. During the period of the Cure's greatest success, O'Donnell was the band's only member to play piano and keyboards as his primary instrument. Previous keyboardist Lol Tolhurst also played drums for a time and subsequent keyboardist Perry Bamonte later switched to guitar. O'Donnell rejoined The Cure in late 1994 and appeared on the albums Wild Mood Swings, Bloodflowers, and The Cure. He also appears on the live DVD The Cure: Trilogy. During this period it is notable that O'Donnell introduced the band to digital recording. When O'Donnell started working on his solo album The Truth in Me in early 2005, he stated that he had no plans to leave The Cure. However, later in that year Robert Smith decided to reconfigure The Cure as a trio, without O'Donnell or Perry Bamonte. O'Donnell would later confirm that the rumour of him being fired by E-mail was false, and if The Cure hadn't been reduced to a trio he would have left regardless to concentrate on solo material. ... Source: Article "Roger O'Donnell" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Champs-Elysées
An annual award ceremony presented by MTV to honor the best in the music video medium.
MTV Video Music Awards
Bill is an ailing larger-than-life father being taken care of by his son Sam, who has returned home to care for him. While home, Sam falls for a local woman, Kate. At the same time, Bill starts to fall for her mom, Tina.
Sam & Kate
A portrait of Steven Patrick Morrissey and his early life in 1970s Manchester before he went on to become lead singer of seminal 1980s band The Smiths.
England Is Mine
The band’s acclaimed 29-song, 135-minute anniversary concert. Filmed in one of London’s Royal Parks to a crowd of 65,000 fans, The Cure presented a four-decade deep set on July 7, 2018. Adding to the experience, the band is back-dropped by giant screens displaying footage that complements the unique moods and emotive song writing that established The Cure as pioneers of alternative rock.
The Cure: Anniversary 1978 - 2018 - (Live In Hyde Park)
A celebration of The Cure. Robert Smith's unique songwriting talents meant that The Cure's long list of singles were always destined to break out of tortured students bedrooms and be embraced by a far wider audience. This archive collection of The Cure's performances on the BBC goes from the early days with A Forest through to hits like Lovecats, Friday I'm In Love, Close To Me and Boys Don't Cry, demonstrating why, in Britain and overseas, they enjoyed – or pretended not to enjoy – such huge success.
The Cure at the BBC
The Cure bring their magisterial, slow-burn masterpiece Disintegration to the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall for four shows to mark the 30th anniversary of their career-defining epic. This is the world premiere of these 30th anniversary performances, and their only Australian engagement. Setlist: Delirious Night, Fear of Ghosts, No Heart, Esten, 2 Late, Out of Mind, Babble, Plainsong, Pictures of You, Closedown, Lovesong, Last Dance, Lullaby, Fascination Street, Prayers for Rain, The Same Deep Water as You, Disintegration, Homesick, Untitled, Burn, Three Imaginary Boys, Pirate Ship
The Cure - Disintegration In Sydney
Trilogy is a live album video by The Cure. It documents The Trilogy Concerts, in which the three albums, Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers were played live in their entirety one after the other each night. Trilogy was recorded on two consecutive nights, 11–12 November 2002, at the Tempodrom arena in Berlin.
The Cure: Trilogy
Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor introduces The Cure for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Barclay Center in NYC on March 29th. Robert Smith and co played 5 songs for the occasion to a very appreciative crowd.
The Cure Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 2019
The Cure are pop outsiders. Over a fifty year career, the English band have released 14 studio albums to great acclaim but it was their 1989 album Disintegration, released during a pivotal year in Europe and the world, which would capture the imagination of so many fans. This documentary tells the story of this landmark work of art in the history of popular music.
Disintegration: An Album, A Band, A Generation
The Cure perform live at United Center, Chicago on 10th June 2023 during their Shows Of A Lost World North American Tour. Main Set: Alone, Pictures Of You, A Fragile Thing, Like Cockatoos, A Night Like This, Lovesong, And Nothing Is Forever, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, Burn, Charlotte Sometimes, Push, Play For Today, A Forest, Shake Dog Shake, From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea, Endsong. Encore 1: I Can Never Say Goodbye, It Can Never Be The Same, Want, Plainsong, Disintegration. Encore 2: Lullaby, The Walk, Friday I'm In Love, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You?, In Between Days, Just Like Heaven, Boys Don't Cry, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab (Performed as 'Killing Another'.).
The Cure - Shows Of A Lost World At United Center, Chicago
The concert was captured on the tenth and final night of the 25th Meltdown Festival (curated by Robert Smith) at London’s Royal Festival Hall in June 2018. The band performed a song from each of their 13 studio albums with new, unreleased songs at the core of the set, offering a glimpse into the bands’ future.
The Cure - CURÆTION-25: From There to Here | From Here to There
The Cure live at Voodoo Festival 2013, in New Orleans - 1st November 2013 Setlist: Shake Dog Shake Fascination Street From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea The End of the World Lovesong Just Like Heaven Burn (live debut) Pictures of You Lullaby High Hot Hot Hot!!! The Caterpillar The Walk Stop Dead Push In Between Days Friday I'm in Love Doing the Unstuck Bananafishbones Want The Hungry Ghost Wrong Number One Hundred Years Give Me It Encore: The Lovecats Close to Me Let's Go to Bed Why Can't I Be You? Boys Don't Cry
The Cure: Voodoo Festival Live
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The Cure: Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2014
To launch the album "Songs of a Lost World" on 1st November 2024, The Cure play live at Troxy in London. Playing the album in full, then embarking on a monster set to adoring fans, The Cure show why they are one of the most respected bands of the last 40 years. Main Set: Alone, And Nothing Is Forever, A Fragile Thing, Warsong, Drone:Nodrone, I Can Never Say Goodbye, All I Ever Am, Endsong, Plainsong, Pictures of You, High, Lovesong, Burn, Fascination Street, A Night Like This, Push, In Between Days, Just Like Heaven, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Disintegration, At Night, M, Secrets, Play for Today, A Forest. Encore: Lullaby, The Walk, Friday I'm in Love, Close to Me, Why Can't I Be You?, Boys Don't Cry.
The Cure: The Show Of A Lost World (Troxy Live 2024)
Huw Stephens from BBC Radio 6 Music welcomes The Cure to perform live at BBC Radio Theatre on 30th October 2024. Featuring new tracks from their forthcoming album "Songs Of A Lost World", their first in 16 years, plus fan and band favourites from across their incredible career. Setlist: Plainsong, Last Dance, I Can Never Say Goodbye, Burn, And Nothing Is Forever, At Night, A Forest, All I Ever Am, Prayers For Rain, Disintegration.
BBC Radio 6 Music Session - The Cure Live
The Cure play an intimate performance with a selection of classics, fan favourites and tracks from the album Songs of a Lost World. Recorded in front of a small audience at the BBC Radio Theatre in London’s Broadcasting House.
The Cure - BBC Radio 2 In Concert
The Cure perform live at Pinkpop Festival at Megaland in Landgraaf, Netherlands on 26th May 2012. Main Set: Plainsong, Pictures Of You, High, The End Of The World, Lovesong, Push, In Between Days, Just Like Heaven, From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea, The Hungry Ghost, Play For Today, A Forest, Bananafishbones, Lullaby, The Walk, Mint Car, Friday I'm In Love, Doing The Unstuck, Trust, Want, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, Disintegration. Encore: The Lovecats, Close To Me, Let's Go To Bed, Sleep When I'm Dead, Why Can't I Be You?, Boys Don't Cry.
The Cure - Live At Pinkpop Festival
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The Cure - Flow Festival 2019
Songs of a Lost World is the fourteenth studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 1 November 2024 via Fiction, Lost Music, Universal, Polydor, and Capitol Records. It is the band's first release of new material in 16 years since the release of 4:13 Dream in 2008. All the songs on the album were composed solely by singer/guitarist Robert Smith, for the first time since the 1985 album The Head on the Door. It is also their first studio album to feature guitarist Reeves Gabrels. The record was released a day after Halloween at Smith's request. Released as a Bluray Audio with Dolby Atmos and PCM Stereo 96/24 sound.