The Cure’s Perry Bamonte Dies at 65

Perry Bamonte, the Cure’s longtime guitarist and keyboardist, has died following an undisclosed sickness. He was 65. In a statement posted to their web site, the band wrote that Bamonte was “quiet, intense, intuitive, fixed and vastly artistic,” in addition to “an important a part of the Treatment story.”

Bamonte was born in September 1960 in London. He first joined the Treatment in 1984, as a part of their highway crew. Six years later, he was invited to change into a full-time member following the departure of keyboardist Roger O’Donnell. Bamonte would go on to carry out greater than 400 exhibits with the band and performed throughout a number of Treatment albums. He left the group in 2005 and rejoined in 2022, forward of their Exhibits of a Misplaced World tour.

In 2019, Bamonte was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame alongside his Treatment bandmates. You possibly can learn the total assertion from the band under.

It’s with huge unhappiness that we verify the loss of life of our nice buddy and bandmate Perry Bamonte who handed away after a brief sickness at residence over Christmas. Quiet, intense, intuitive, fixed and vastly artistic, ‘Teddy’ was a heat hearted and very important a part of the Treatment story. ‘Taking care of the band’ from 1984 by 1989, he turned a full time member of the Treatment in 1990, enjoying guitar, six string bass and keyboard on the want, Wild Temper Swings, Bloodflowers, Acoustic Hits and The Treatment albums, in addition to performing greater than 400 exhibits over 14 years. He rejoined the Treatment in 2022, enjoying one other 90 exhibits, among the greatest within the band’s historical past, culminating with the present of a Misplaced World live performance in London 1st November 2024. Our ideas and condolences are with all his household. He might be very significantly missed.