The Cure’s Perry Bamonte Has Died at 65

Perry Bamonte, who performed guitar and keyboards for The Treatment, has died on the age of 65.

“It’s with monumental disappointment that we verify the demise of our nice good friend and bandmate Perry Bamonte who handed away after a brief sickness at residence over Christmas,” the band posted on their web site. “Quiet, intense, intuitive, fixed and vastly artistic, ‘Teddy’ was a heat hearted and very important a part of the Treatment story.”

After working as Robert Smith’s guitar tech and private assistant, Bamonte grew to become an official member of the Treatment in 1990, and the primary album he appeared on was 1992’s Want.

“Now, I am one of many first to go residence after a present as an alternative of the final one to depart,” he stated in an interview then. “It is more healthy, that is for certain. Additionally, within the Treatment we get so as to add our personal components to the music—tempos, accents…I believe our sound is much more pushed and noisy now. … Although we’re very separate and distinct people, we have advanced a kind of group thoughts with the music. It is so much like science fiction, being within the Treatment.”

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He performed on two extra studio albums, Wild Temper Swings (1996) and Bloodflowers (2000) earlier than being dismissed from the group in 2005.

After that, Bamonte led a comparatively quiet life, devoting most of his inventive expertise to creating illustrations. In 2019, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame alongside his Treatment bandmates, and in 2022, he rejoined the band and seems on their 2024 album Songs Of a Misplaced World.

“Our ideas and condolences are with all his household,” the Treatment’s assertion concluded. “He can be very tremendously missed.”