The Cure

These performances were relased as the Trilogy DVD in 2003. "Tout l'or des hommes" reached number five on the English CHR Audience Chart. In 2002 they continued recording, and also headlined twelve major music festivals, in addition to playing several three-hour concerts during which they performed the albums Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers in their entirety in Berlin. The first single from this album, "Tout l'or des hommes", established the record for becoming the highest charting Francophone single on the National (English) CHR Audience chart in the BDS era. In 2001 The Cure left Fiction and released their Greatest Hits album. Dion herself has referred to it as "the album of pleasure". The band also embarked on the nine-month Dream Tour, attended by over one million people worldwide. Critics have called it Dion's best and most natural album.

This album was widely seen as the third in a trilogy including Pornography and Disintegration. The album is yet again a collaboration between Dion and Jean-Jacques Goldman (joined by three of his friends, Gildas Arzel, Eric Benzi and Jacques Veneruso), who had previously worked with her on S'il suffisait d'aimer and D'eux (also known as The French Album, which sold nine million copies worldwide, making it the most sold French-language album of all time). The Grammy-nominated album Bloodflowers was released in 2000. In October 2003, her French album 1 fille & 4 types was released. The Cure also contributed to the soundtrack album for The X-Files: Fight the Future as well as For the Masses, a Depeche Mode tribute album. In 2003, moviegoers once again heard Céline Dion's voice in the song "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" on the soundtrack to Mona Lisa Smile. In 1996 The Cure released the album Wild Mood Swings, and in 1998 Smith appeared as himself on the animated TV show South Park. It was one of the top-ten selling perfumes of 2003.

Boris Williams (drums) left the band, and was replaced by Jason Cooper (formerly with My Life Story), and Roger O'Donnell rejoined. She also released her own perfume line, which was well received and was advertised on commercial television. During 1994, Lol Tolhurst sued Robert Smith and Fiction Records over royalties payments, also claiming joint ownership of the name "The Cure" with Smith; after a long legal battle Tolhurst eventually lost. The album has been certificated as 10th-best selling album of the year, according to IFPI. Porl Thompson (guitar) left the band once more during 1993 to play with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. In March 2003, Dion was everywhere: on 25 March her A New Day show opened in Las Vegas, and her album One Heart was released. The EP has since become an extremely sought after item, copies exchanging hands for approaching £100. She had a contract to perform in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In 1990 The Cure released a collection of remixes called Mixed Up, a collection which was roundly panned by both critics and fans (Smith says that he expected this, but decided to release the collection anyway). In 2000, Dion began a two-year hiatus from the music industry. This tour featured some of the band's longest ever shows; their final gig at Wembley Arena (announced By Robert as "probably our last show") lasted over three and a half hours. Some of Dion's own songs have been covered: "My Heart Will Go On" by Claire Sweeney and Neil Diamond, among others, "These Are Special Times" by Christina Aguilera, and "Don't Save It All for Christmas Day" by Clay Aiken. The Cure embarked on the "Prayer" tour. Dion also covered one of Anggun's song "Tu nages" in her latest French album. In 1989 they released the album Disintegration, which became their highest-charting album to date at #3 and featured four Top 20 singles ("Lullaby", "Fascination Street", "Pictures of You", and "Lovesong"). Shortly before the release, Tolhurst left permanently, leaving Smith as the only remaining founding member of The Cure. Dion has covered several popular songs in her time, including Jennifer Rush's hit "The Power of Love", Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", Roy Orbison's "I Drove All Night" and Eric Carmen's "All by Myself", John Lennon's "Beautiful Boy", Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World", Ray Charles' "If I Could".

In 1988 the band history Ten Imaginary Years was released, and Lol Tolhurst, though he had not yet left the band, was replaced by Roger O'Donnell. In 1996 at the Atlanta Olympics, she performed the theme song, "The Power of the Dream". In 1987 The Cure released the double album Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, and embarked on the "Kissing Tour.". Dion is also no stranger to participating in tribute albums, such as a 1995 collection of Carole King songs called Tapestry Revisited, In My Life (a collection of Beatles songs in tribute to producer George Martin), and a 1997 double-CD set commemorating Diana, Princess of Wales. Throughout 1986 Lol Tolhurst's alcohol consumption was interfering with his ability to perform, and Roger O'Donnell was frequently called upon to stand in for him. The song "I'm Alive" from her A New Day Has Come album was featured in the second Stuart Little motion picture. In 2004, Dion recorded the title track for the Anglo-French-Canadian movie Nouvelle-France, titled "Ma Nouvelle-France", written by Luc Plamondon and Patrick Doyle and produced by Christopher Neil. The album's title was taken from a line in the song "Killing an Arab." This release was accompanied by a video version called Staring at the Sea and by another tour, as well as a live concert film called The Cure In Orange. Her last movie song before her short two-year hiatus to have a child came in 1999 with "Then You Look at Me" (from Bicentennial Man, also written by Horner and Jennings).

Following this release and another world tour, the band released Standing on a Beach, a collection featuring all The Cure's singles and B-sides. One year later, she performed "The Prayer" for the 1998 animated film Quest for Camelot. In 1985 the new lineup released The Head on the Door which reached #7 in the UK and #59 on the American charts. By 1997, her records and her rendition of James Horner and Will Jennings's song "My Heart Will Go On", written for the motion picture Titanic (but making its debut on her album Let's Talk About Love), made her the top-grossing star of the music world, with more than 50 million records sold. Robert Smith later expressed his satisfaction with the reunited Cure, saying "we're a band again.". In North America, and working in the United States, her song for Disney's Beauty and the Beast (written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman), "Because You Loved Me" (from 1995s Up Close and Personal, another Diane Warren composition), and a cover of Nat King Cole's "When I Fall in Love" (from 1993's Sleepless in Seattle), added to her growing stardom. At the end of the tour, however, Anderson was fired and replaced by Boris Williams, and Thornalley was replaced by returnee Simon Gallup. Dion's work has featured heavily in the soundtracks of a number of hit films.

The Cure then embarked on their "Top Tour" with Thompson, Anderson, and bassist Phil Thornalley on board. The couple also has a son, René-Charles Angélil (born January 2001). In 1984 The Cure released The Top, an album on which Smith played all the instruments except the drums (played by Andy Anderson) and the saxophone (played by returnee Porl Thompson). The wedding was broadcast on television across Canada and was very highly rated. Reduced to the duo of Smith and Tolhurst, the Cure released four studio singles and their B-sides as the album Japanese Whispers. The singles from this period were uncharacteristically upbeat and accessible, though Smith would soon return to writing more melancholy (if not as somber) material. Eventually, they were engaged, and she married him in 1994. The same year, Smith also recorded and toured with Siouxsie and the Banshees, contributing his writing and playing skills on their Hyaena and Nocturne albums, as well as recording the Blue Sunshine album as The Glove (see above). In the dedication section of her third English-language album, The Colour of My Love, Dion named Angélil "the colour of [her] love".

In 1983 The Cure released two more singles, "The Walk" (UK #12) and "The Lovecats," which became the band's first UK top 10 single at #7. In late 1993, she indicated to the public for the first time that she was in love with her manager, René Angélil. Smith says that he "doesn't even remember making a lot of Pornography" (2). However, Céline Dion finally showcased her talents as a songwriter when she co-wrote "Don't Save It All for Christmas Day" for the 1998 Christmas album, These Are Special Times, and "Treat Her Like a Lady" on her Let's Talk About Love album, 1997. After an altercation in a club between Smith and Simon Gallup, Gallup left the group and started another one called Fools Dance. Many of the hit singles that followed over the next ten years ("If You Asked Me To", "Water from the Moon", and "Nothing Broken but My Heart") were written by Diane Warren, a composer best known for power ballads. The release was followed by the "Fourteen Explicit Moments" tour, and by increasing problems among the members. Her first English-language album, Unison (1990), expanded her international recognition with the breakthrough single, "Where Does My Heart Beat Now".

Perhaps because of the rumours, Pornography became the band's first UK Top 10 album, hitting the charts at #9. By winning the contest in Dublin, Ireland on April 30, 1988, she received a large boost to her career in Europe. In 1982 The Cure recorded Pornography, a bleak, nihilist offering that led to more rumours that Smith was suicidal. Approached by Swiss song writers Atilla Şereftuğ and Nella Martinetti, she was chosen to represent Switzerland in the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, singing "Ne partez pas sans moi". The band members' lives began to be marked by increasing drug use. Her career continued to blossom, and in 1987, she produced the album Incognito, which became a huge success. Smith's increasing depression was embodied in the album, Faith, released in 1981. The following year she competed and won the gold medal at the Tokyo World Song Festival.

In the next two years, I genuinely felt that I wasn't going to be alive for much longer, and I tried pretty hard to make this feeling come true" (1). In 1981, they released her first record in her native French language, "La Voix du bon Dieu" ("The Voice of God"), which made her an instant star in Quebec. Now 21, Smith "didn't see that there was much point in continuing with life. In 1980, her mother brought her to agent/manager René Angélil, who so believed in her voice that he mortgaged his home to help finance her career. Carnage Visors was used as a "tour support" film for their "Picture Tour". By the age of five, she was performing for anyone who would listen. In 1981 came the album Faith, which hit #14 on the UK charts, as well as an instrumental soundtrack for the film Carnage Visors (these were packaged together as a long-play cassette called Faith/Carnage Visors). She was born to a Roman Catholic family in the small town of Charlemagne, Quebec, with a singing voice that her mother encouraged.

The Cure set out on their first world tour, at the end of which Matthieu Hartley left the band. Céline Marie Claudette Dion OC (born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian vocalist. "A Forest" became the band's first UK hit single. She received a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame in Toronto on June 25, 2003, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004. In 1980 the 4-piece Cure released "Seventeen Seconds" which reached #20 on the UK charts. She loves to play golf, even in the Quebec winter. Member Michael Dempsey left the band, and Simon Gallup (bass) and Matthieu Hartley (keyboards) joined. Has an estimated wealth of $320 million to $400 million.

The next single "Boys Don't Cry" was a minor hit in the US, and Three Imaginary Boys was repackaged for sale there as Boys Don't Cry. In 1998 she was honoured by two governments in two days: on April 30, her home province made her an officer of the National Order of Quebec, and on May 1 she became an officer of the Order of Canada. In 1979, The Cure released the album Three Imaginary Boys and embarked on an extensive period of touring, during which they performed with various other iconic bands such as Joy Division and Siouxsie & the Banshees, leading eventually to a collaboration between Smith and Banshees member Steven Severin, released under the name The Glove. Her husband/manager and the song writer James Horner had to convince her. The Cure released their first single "Killing an Arab" to both acclaim and controversy; while the single's provocative title led to accusations of racism, the song is actually based on French existentialist Albert Camus' story The Stranger. The single was packaged with a sticker label that denied the racist connotations. At first she did not want to record her biggest hit "My Heart Will Go On". The B-Side to the single "Boys Don't Cry", "Do the Hansa" was The Cure's way of getting back at Hansa Records for not signing them. She has her own magazine, Céline Dion Magazine.

A year later, following disagreements about the direction the group should take, the newly named The Cure were signed as a trio (minus Porl Thompson) by former Polydor records scout Chris Parry's new Fiction label (distributed by Polydor). She is three months younger than her step-son, Patrick Angélil. In 1977, The Easy Cure auditioned for Hansa Records and received a recording contract worth £1000. She plans to send him to a school where he will learn English, French, and Spanish. They began writing their own songs almost immediately, and quickly amassed both an impressive repertoire of original material and a growing following. Is raising her son to be multilingual. Wilfrid's Catholic Comprehensive School in Crawley, Sussex. Her son's baptism on July 25, 2001, was broadcast live throughout Canada.

In 1976 Robert Smith, a 17-year-old student, formed The Easy Cure with classmates Michael Dempsey (bass), Lol Tolhurst (drums) and Porl Thompson (guitar) from St. She does not believe that school is for everyone. The band is often considered as being part of the Gothic genre, possibly because of lead singer Robert Smith's image, but Smith rejects this, saying that he considers the band to be mainstream. Has said that she regrets dropping out of high school. The Cure is a British rock band widely seen as one of the leading pioneers of the British alternative rock and post-punk scenes of the 1980s. They were never released because of disagreements between Spector and Dion's labels. Jason Cooper (percussion; member 1995-present). Recorded songs together with famed producer Phil Spector (The Beatles, Ike and Tina Turner).

Perry Bamonte (keyboards, guitars; member 1990-present). Dion denies this but has said that her shoe collection is in the hundreds. Roger O'Donnell (keyboards; member 1987-1990 & 1995-present). Is rumoured to have over 1000 pairs of shoes. Boris Williams (percussion; member 1984-1994). Is distantly related to Madonna. Andy Anderson (percussion; member 1983-1984). Céline Dion performed the hit single of the film Titanic, the second best-selling CD of the 1990s, and her albums Falling into You and Let's Talk About Love are both in the third position, having sold more than 30 million copies each.

Phil Thornalley (bass guitar; member 1983-1984). Dion's last two French-language albums, 1 fille & 4 types and S'il suffisait d'aimer took only five to six days to record while her album A New Day Has Come took about a month to record. Matthieu Hartley (keyboards; member 1979-1980). Dion loved the challenge, and hopes to act in a movie one day. Simon Gallup (bass guitar; member 1979-1982 & 1985-present). She portrayed a young woman named Elisa who lived a very difficult, abused life. Michael Dempsey (bass guitar; member 1976-1979). Shortly after her Unison album was released, Dion acted in a television mini-series called Des fleurs sur la neige (Flowers on the Snow).

Lol Tolhurst (percussion, keyboards; member 1976-1989). The song is co-written by Pascal Obispo, a popular French singer and composer, who composed the musical score to Les dix commandements. Porl Thompson (guitars; member 1977-1978 & 1984-1992). "L'envie d'aimer" was originally interpreted by Daniel Lévi who portrays Moses in the musical. Robert Smith (vocals, guitar, keyboards; member 1976-present). "The Greatest Reward", featured on A New Day Has Come, is an adaptation of "L'envie d'aimer", a song from the French stage musical Les dix commandements (The Ten Commandments). Trilogy. [3]  (http://www.sonymusic.co.in/news/newsbrief.asp?newsid={FD6088C9-DBD6-425B-B46A-94D783E0286B}&artalb=False&cookie%5Ftest=1).

Greatest Hits. Has sold more than 170 million records around the globe, making her one of the best-selling female recording artists of all time. Galore. [2] (http://www.worldmusicawards.com/diamondaward.html). The Cure Play Out. This certified her as selling over 100 million albums world wide. Picture Show. On September 15, 2004, Dion received a Diamond Award at the "World Music Awards".

The Cure in Orange. 2003 "One Heart" #27 UK. Standing on a Beach. from One Heart