The Cure recently released a new EP, A Fragile Thing, which features a live version of the single as well as a remix by Robert Smith.

The original “Fragile Thing” track appears on The Cure’s 14th studio album, Songs Of A Lost World, which arrived earlier in November.

The four-track A Fragile Thing EP features a live performance of the single from the launch show that took place at the Troxy in London on November 1. The EP also contains “A Fragile Thing – RS24 Remix” by frontman Robert Smith and a shortened audio edit of the original version.

“Thank you again to everyone for helping make the Troxy London night so special – in the room and around the world,” The Cure wrote to announce the release of the EP and the global live-stream of the gig.

The group also said that the live recording was mixed by Smith himself.

Smith had explained in October that “A Fragile Thing” was about “how love is the most enduring of emotion. It’s the most powerful emotion, and it’s incredibly resilient. And yet at the same time, incredibly fragile.”

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Sammy Hagar recently explained to Rolling Stone the reason for Kenny Arnoff replacing Jason Bonham as his band’s drummer.

Arnoff came into the group earlier this year for the final dates of The Best Of All Worlds Summer Tour when Bonham temporarily stepped away due to a family emergency. However, it now seems Arnoff has come to stay for longer and will be part of the group during Hagar’s upcoming Best Of All Worlds Las Vegas Residency in 2025.

“There’s two reasons,” Hagar explained to Rolling Stone. “Number one, he’s one of the greatest drummers on the planet. I think he’s been on more million-selling records than any musician in the world. And he did so well on this tour, and he plays with Joe on a full-time basis.”

“And he blew my mind. I played with Kenny in Chickenfoot, and he blew my mind then too, because when we auditioned him, he learns every song,” he continued. “‘Tell me what songs we’re playing.’ ‘Okay, here they are.’ He charts them out and he sits there, and he can read it, and play it with soul and power perfectly, just one time, the first time he plays it. If that don’t blow a musician’s mind, I don’t know what would, especially these kinds of songs. These songs are crazy. They’re Van Halen arrangements.”

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In an interview with Anthony Mason of “CBS This Morning” that took place at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall a few days after the passing of Grateful Dead co-founder and bassist Phil Lesh, the surviving members of the group – Bonny Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart – revealed that they were planning a reunion to celebrate the band’s 60th anniversary with Lesh next year.

They said they had even scheduled time to rehearse for their comeback performance. Lesh died on Friday, October 25 at age 84.

“I was hoping that we could play with him again one more time,” Kreutzmann said. “So that, that was my sadness…’Cause I know he wanted to play with us again too.”

“We were kickin’ it around,” Weir added. “In fact, we were gonna, we were gonna get together and, and kick some songs around tomorrow.”

“I was hopin’ that we could do it,” Kreutzmann said, and Weir added, “We were gonna see where it goes. But we were just gonna play the four of us.”

Weir, Kreutzmann and Hart last performed with Lesh at the “Fare Thee Well” concerts in 2015 that marked the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead.

The Grateful Dead band’s full interview will be broadcast on CBS Mornings on Wednesday, December 18.

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Elton John has revealed that he is blind in his right eye due to an infection. The 77-year-old music icon contracted the eye infection over the summer.

John provided more details on the latest health problem that he has faced over the course of his career in a recent interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

“I unfortunately lost my eyesight in my right eye in July because I had an infection in the South of France, and it’s been four months now since I haven’t been able to see,” he said. “My left eye is not the greatest.”

“I can do something like this, but going into the studio and recording, I don’t know. Because I can’t see a lyric for start,” Elton continued. “It kind of floored me, and I can’t see anything. I can’t read anything, I can’t watch anything.”

“Never Too Late,” John’s collaboration with Brandi Carlile, will feature in the upcoming documentary Elton John: Never Too Late, which is scheduled to premiere on Disney+ on December 13.

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