The Cure - 'Boys Don't Cry.'

 June 14th 1979, 46 years ago, The Cure released their single 'Boys Don't Cry.'

"When I was growing up, there was peer pressure on you to conform to be a certain way," Robert Smith explained.

"And as an English boy at the time, you're encouraged not to show your emotion to any degree. And I couldn't help but show my emotions when I was younger. I never found it awkward showing my emotions. I couldn't really continue without showing my emotions; you'd have to be a pretty boring singer to do that."

"So I kind of made a big thing about it. I thought, 'Well, it's part of my nature to rail against being told not to do something'."

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