The Cure's Robert Smith, 64, grapples with mortality, plays six dark new songs during cathartic Hollywood Bowl residency: 'It's really hard to keep hold of your younger self'

The Cure's new album, Songs of a Lost World, will be their first since 2008’s 4:13 Dream.

Robert Smith, now age 64, played six songs from the new album in three-night run at the Hollywood Bowl.

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