What Robert Smith Knows About Vocations

Andrew Macrae
2 min readApr 15, 2020
A microphone on a stage
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I have a thing for rock’n’roll autobiographies. I also have a thing for The Cure.

So when I found out Lol Tolhurst, one of the band’s founding members, had written a book about their early days, it was on the Kindle within minutes.

There’s a passage that really jumped out at me.

Andrew Macrae

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