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

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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