The Cure - Play For Today - TROS TOP 50 (1980) - TopPop

This is a premiere for YouTube and the rest of the world! This rare footage of The Cure has never been broadcast since this very first broadcast on July 3, 1980 in the TROS Top 50 in the Netherlands. We publish it today, February 3, 2022, because today is drummer Lol Tolhurst’s 63rd birthday. Laurence “Lol“ Tolhurst, (Laurence Andrew Tolhurst, Horley (Surrey, England), 3 February 1959) was drummer of the Cure untill 1988. This track has not been released as a single at the time and is still part of the Cure’s live performances. Why has this video not been shown in later episodes? Simply because Paul Smith did not want to release a second single from the ’Seventeen Seconds’ album in the Netherlands. ’A Forest’ the lead single from the album ’Seventeen Seconds’ by the way was recorded and broacast on the same tv-show and has been published before on this channel. A full version will be released in the coming weeks The Cure are an E