The Cure Debut Entire New Album At Free Concert in Rome

Even though their new album 4:13 Dream isn't due out until October 28th, the Cure played the entirety of their 13th album live during a free concert at Rome's Piazza San Giovanni over the weekend. The performance was also broadcast on MTV. In addition to the four songs the band released as anticipatory singles, Robert Smith and company unveiled new songs like the poppy "The Real Snow White," "Underneath the Stars" and "The Hungry." Still, our favorite remains "The Perfect Boy," as evidenced by the above video. To check out videos for all 13 4:13 tracks — plus their classic "Lovesong" — click here.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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