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Cut Here

A 2001 single for Billy Mackenzie, and the Cure's last on Fiction.

"Cut Here" is a Cure single released on 29 October 2001 from that year's Greatest Hits compilation. It reached No. 54 in the UK and was the band's last release on Fiction Records.

Quick Facts

Artist
The Cure
Album
Greatest Hits
B-side
Signal to Noise
Released
29 October 2001
Length
4:10
Label
Fiction
Writer
  • Perry Bamonte
  • Jason Cooper
  • Simon Gallup
  • Roger O'Donnell
  • Robert Smith
Producer
Robert Smith; Mark Plati

Lore & Background

Robert Smith wrote it in memory of his friend Billy Mackenzie, singer of the Associates, who died by suicide in 1997. The title has nothing to do with the lyric: it is an anagram of "The Cure". AllMusic heard in it "early sounds of Madchester".

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