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9th November 2022
05:36pm GMT

Robert Smith of The Cure (Getty)[/caption]
It is not quite clear why Weller has such a passionate dislike of the Cure frontman, but according to Louder Sounds The Jam inadvertently helped Smith's band during the recording of The Cure's debut album Three Imaginary Boys.
Back in 2004, Smith told Rolling Stone:“The Jam were recording their album during the day, and we used to sneak in at night and use their equipment – we knew the bloke who was looking after it – to record our album. We just borrowed tape and stuff".
Or it could be that Weller is still upset over a comment Smith made in 1985, when he mentioned Weller during an interview in which he said that punk wasn’t a political movement.
He said: “It [punk] later became that, because people wanted it to be seen as a movement.”
Smith claimed that people were dissatisfied with listening to “bands like Yes and Genesis“, and instead “wanted to hear something they could dance to”.
“Even people who think they’re socially aware and lend their names to things, like Paul Weller and stuff… I mean it does no good at all, ultimately,” Smith explained. “Because you’d have to be particularly stupid to believe someone like Paul Weller.
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