{"id":27418,"date":"2025-12-28T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=27418"},"modified":"2025-12-28T01:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T01:30:11","slug":"the-cure-guitarist-perry-bamonte-dies-aged-65-rock-band-announces-musician-passed-away-over-christmas-after-a-short-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=27418","title":{"rendered":"The Cure guitarist Perry Bamonte dies aged 65: Rock band announces musician passed away over Christmas after a short illness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Cure guitarist Perry Bamonte has died aged 65, the band confirmed on Boxing Day, following a short illness. A key creative force, Bamonte played with the band from the late 1980s through the 2000s, rejoining again in 2022 for what became some of their most celebrated recent shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bandmates and fans around the world have paid tribute to Bamonte\u2019s warmth, creativity, and lasting impact on The Cure\u2019s sound and legacy, with frontman Robert Smith calling him a vital part of the band\u2019s story who will be deeply missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cure guitarist Perry Bamonte has died aged 65, the band confirmed on Boxing Day, following a short illness. A key creative force, Bamonte played with the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":145,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27420,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27418\/revisions\/27420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}