Disintegration is the eighth studio album by English alternative rock
band The Cure, released on 1 May 1989 by Fiction Records. The record
marks a return to the introspective and gloomy gothic rock style the
band had established in the early 1980s. As he neared the age of
thirty, vocalist and guitarist Robert Smith (pictured) felt an
increased pressure to follow up on the group's pop successes with a
more enduring work. This, coupled with a distaste for the group's
new-found popularity, caused Smith to lapse back into the use of
hallucinogenic drugs, the effects of which had a strong influence on
the production of the album. The Cure recorded Disintegration at Hook
End Manor Studios in Reading, Berkshire, with co-producer David M.
Allen from late 1988 to early 1989. In spite of Fiction's fears that
the album would be "commercial suicide", Disintegration became the
band's commercial peak. It charted at number three in the United
Kingdom and at number twelve in the United States, and produced several
hit singles including "Lovesong", which peaked at number two on the
Billboard Hot 100. Disintegration sold over three million copies
worldwide. (Disintegration (The Cure album)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1786:
The Marriage of Figaro, an opera buffa composed by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart, premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
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1794:
War of the Pyrenees: France regained nearly all the land it lost to
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1941:
Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson
Welles , premiered.
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1956:
A doctor in Japan reported an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the
central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata
disease.
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2009:
Carol Ann Duffy was elected Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the
first woman, the first Scot, and the first openly bisexual person to
hold the position, as well as the first laureate to be chosen in the
21st century.
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us, as a May-day sweep" (Punch), "with a thing only fit for a May-day
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