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Lol Tolhurst

British musician
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Lol Tolhurst is a British musician, best known as a founding member and drummer of the post-punk band The Cure. He was born in Horley, Surrey, England, on February 3, 1959. Tolhurst, along with Robert Smith and Michael Dempsey, formed the band Easy Cure in 1976, which later became The Cure. He played with the band through their early years and their rise to mainstream success in the 1980s, contributing to albums that defined their signature moody, Gothic, and melancholic sound.12

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