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Perry Bamonte is dead. The Cure musician, keyboardist and guitarist died this Friday (December 26, 2025). The Cure announced this on their website.
“It is with great sadness that we confirm the death of our great friend and bandmate Perry Bamonte, who passed away at home over Christmas after a brief illness,” the band wrote. “Quiet, intense, intuitive, consistent and immensely creative, ‘Teddy’ was a warm-hearted and indispensable part of The Cure’s story.” Read here how The Cure could tour in 2026 without Bamonte.
And further on the band page: “As someone who looked after the band from 1984 to 1989, he became a permanent member of The Cure in 1990, playing guitar, six-string bass and keyboards on the albums Wish, Wild Mood Swings, Bloodflowers, Acoustic Hits and The Cureand also completed over 400 concerts in 14 years.”
Perry Bamonte as a studio and live musician
“He returned to The Cure in 2022 and played a further 90 shows, some of the best in the band’s history, culminating in the Songs of a Lost World concert in London on November 1, 2024. Our thoughts and condolences go out to his entire family. We will miss him very, very much.
Perry Bamonte was 65 years old. The Cure or his relatives have not revealed a cause of death. Bamonte’s fragile appearance and reserved play on stage have worried fans since his Cure comeback in 2022. Recently, keyboardist Roger O’Donnell had to struggle with his health – he beat cancer.
Perry Bamonte was also seen as a permanent member in many Cure music videos, such as “Never Enough”, “High”, “Friday I’m in Love” and “A Letter to Elise”. Even if he never pushed himself into the foreground.
Perry’s younger brother Daryl (who also replaced the ill Andrew Fletcher on keyboards on tour) worked as a tour manager for The Cure and Depeche Mode, and it was through this connection that Perry joined The Cure’s road crew in 1984. He later became a guitar technician and personal assistant to Robert Smith.
It is not yet known whether Perry Bamonte’s death will have an impact on The Cure’s open-air tour announced for 2026.