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No, I hate you MORE: The decades-long feud between Morrissey & Robert Smith of The Cure | Dangerous Minds
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![NME on Twitter: "#ThrowbackOfTheDay: David Bowie and Robert Smith at Meltdown Festival 2002 https://t.co/QUcmO77Oz4" / Twitter NME on Twitter: "#ThrowbackOfTheDay: David Bowie and Robert Smith at Meltdown Festival 2002 https://t.co/QUcmO77Oz4" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKFdarNUEAAxR-O.jpg)
NME on Twitter: "#ThrowbackOfTheDay: David Bowie and Robert Smith at Meltdown Festival 2002 https://t.co/QUcmO77Oz4" / Twitter
![Ori on Twitter: "🎶🎸Today the man with the white makeup, red lipstick and matted hair turns 62. Robert Smith, vocalist and guitarist of the English alternative rock band The Cure, an icon Ori on Twitter: "🎶🎸Today the man with the white makeup, red lipstick and matted hair turns 62. Robert Smith, vocalist and guitarist of the English alternative rock band The Cure, an icon](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzgBuc_WEAICv4Z.jpg)
Ori on Twitter: "🎶🎸Today the man with the white makeup, red lipstick and matted hair turns 62. Robert Smith, vocalist and guitarist of the English alternative rock band The Cure, an icon
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