Pictures Of You: A Tribute To Godlike Geniuses The Cure

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Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly has covered ‘In Between Days’ for our exclusive Cure CD. Ben Folds, Mumm-Ra and The Rifles have all tried their hand at this song, and it’s also been sampled by Girl Talk. Pic: Andy Willsher

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Get this week’s NME souvenir box set for our free Cure covers CD, which features Alkaline Trio’s version of ‘Cut Here’, plus a Kings Of Leon poster and 20% off Bench vouncher, and the full mag, which features White Lies as cover stars. Pic: PA Photos

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Metronomy turned their hands towards ‘Fascination Street’ for our CD. The track was an American-only single from 1989 album ‘Disintegration’, because the American record company rejected the band’s original choice of ‘Lullaby’. This week’s NME is a special boxset edition featuring the free CD of Cure covers plus a Kings Of Leon poster and a 20% off Bench voucher. Pic: Pieter M Van Hattem

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The Futureheads got the privilege of recording their own version of one of The Cure’s most famous tracks, 1983’s ‘The Lovecats’. It was their first top ten hit, reaching Number Seven in October that year. Pic: Tim Cochrane

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This week’s NME is a box set special with a free CD of 14 different Cure cover songs. Editors provide their unique take on ‘Lullaby’, a track that has been sampled several times before, by the likes of Rachel Stevens and Just Jack. Pic: PA Photos

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Fast-rising Londoners The Big Pink have covered The Cure’s ‘Love Song’ from their eighth album Disintegration. The track (sometimes listed as ‘Lovesong’) has been covered by a multitude of bands including 311, Good Charlotte, A Perfect Circle, Death Cab For Cutie and ‘American Idol’ runner up Blake Lewis.

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Marmaduke Duke – aka Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro and Sucioperro’s JP Reid – have turned their hands towards The Cure’s ‘Friday I’m In Love’ for this week’s free covermount. The track was the second single from their ninth studio album ‘Wish’, and most recently popped up in the film ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’. This week’s NME is a special boxset edition featuring the free CD of Cure covers, plus a Kings Of Leon poster and a 20% off Bench voucher.

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