The Cure – Seventeen Seconds Canterbury Scene Steel Church

Steel Church

B4 Polaris

B2 If You Be My Baby

the band nonetheless managed to complete this classic album with Dickey Betts on guitar

Next to Michael Schenker caressing his iconic black and white Dean Flying V

The Cure – Seventeen Seconds Canterbury Scene Steel ChurchOn Seventeen Seconds, originally from 1980, The Cure sound suddenly nothing like they did on the debut: slow, bare and cold, with a lot of space between the instruments. Robert Smith produced the album with Mike Hedges and recorded it in roughly a week; bassist Simon Gallup and keyboard player Matthieu Hartley had only just joined. 'A Forest' became the group's first single to reach the UK top 40 and stayed a fixture of their live set for decades