The Cure’s Robert Smith, 64, grapples with mortality, plays six dark new songs during cathartic Hollywood Bowl residency: ‘It’s really hard to keep hold of your younger self’
“I’ve experienced more of life’s darker side, for real. Before I used to write about stuff that I thought I understood. Now I know I understand it. The lyrics I’ve been writing for this album, for me personally, are more true,” Smith told Britain’s NME in 2019, when he first teased plans for the new…