Robert Smith spoke about the importance of his dead brother
Robert Smith in a recent interview on Radio X – where he presented the latest album song by song Care“SongsOf A Lost World” (read the review here) released last month – revealed that he has his now-deceased brother to thank for encouraging him to play in the band full-time, instead of enrolling in higher education.
Speaking about his brother, he said how he was very important to him: “My brother gave me the idea that I could do anything I wanted.
My father was also very supportive, but he was much more traditional. He wanted me to finish my studies and then join a band if that’s what I still wanted to do. Initially I tried to make him understand that the world doesn’t work like that. You can’t drop out of college and then decide to join a band. You do it or you don’t.”
He continued his speech by recalling how his brother “took his side, I think he was the one who convinced my father, because I think otherwise it would have been a problem, because they let me stay at home while I freed myself from my commitments. But I never got rid of it. I think maybe, in hindsight, my father thought the sooner we failed, the sooner he would bring me back to the idea of a formal education.”
Speaking of
“I Can Never Say Goodbye”
in a previous interview, Smith explained: “I wrote this song many different ways, until I found a very simple narrative of what really happened the night he died. It went around to all the houses and I went everywhere with this song to sum up how I felt. In the end, it turned into quite a sad little story. It’s a very difficult song to sing, but it was that helped me enormously.”
