Lol Tolhurst

Laurence Andrew "Lol" Tolhurst (born 3 February 1959) is an English musician. A founding member and the former drummer and keyboardist of seminal English band The Cure, he left the group in 1989 and was later involved in the band Presence and his current project, Levinhurst. In 2011, he was temporarily reunited with the Cure for a number of shows playing the band's earlier work. Tolhurst published his memoir in 2016, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys. The book related his childhood in Crawley and his journey within the Cure. In 2023, he recorded the album Los Angeles with Budgie and Jacknife Lee: the lead single and title track features James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem on vocals. That year, he published his second book, Goth: a History.

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