Porl Thompson

Pearl Thompson born 8 November 1957 as Paul Stephen Thompson is an English musician and artist Thompson is best known as a member of the English alternative rock band The Cure from 19831994 and 20062010 credited as Porl Thompson and playing mainly guitar with occasional keyboards and saxophone During and after The Cure Thompson was active with a few other bands and projects but has since retired from music and turned to painting Thompson was a member alongside Robert Smith Michael Dempsey and Lol Tolhurst of the Easy Cure which was a precursor to The Cure Thompson left Easy Cure to go to art college his style did not mesh well with Smiths approach to songwriting Thompson went on to become a member of The Exotic Pandas and occasionally played with The Glove a collaboration between Smith and Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees Thompson rejoined his bandmates in The Cure in 1983 initially playing saxophone on several tracks that would appear on the groups 1984 album The Top During the Top tour he expanded his instrumental contributions to include keyboard as well as guitar also continuing to perform with The Glove when they appeared on television Over time Thompson became known principally as a guitarist in the band and is sometimes seen as the most technically proficient musician in the bands history after Reeves Gabrels In 1994 Thompson left The Cure to play with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin during the Page and Plant tour of 1995 He also played with Babacar a band formed by longtime Cure drummer Boris Williams Later Thompson formed another project called Quietly Torn Thompson continued working with Plant joining the singers group for the 2002 release Dreamland In June 2005 Thompson rejoined The Cure and was with the band for the recording of the live DVD The Cure Festival 2005 for the recording of the bands 13th studio album 413 Dream and for the bands 20072008 4Tour In 2007 Schecter Guitars released a Pearl Thompson Signature model featuring graphics by the British artist Kev Grey The guitar was featured in the book 108 Rock Star Guitars by photographer Lisa S Johnson Thompson is featured on the album Callus by Gonjasufi released in August 2016 Thompson and background designer Andy Vella were the cofounders of Parched Art Parched Art produced many of the record sleeves found on The Cures albums The most recognisable record sleeves were primarily drawn painted or photographed by Thompson In 2002 Thompson also had an exhibition of paintings in Cornwall UK and Canada titled 100 SKY In March 2015 Thompsons first US painting exhibition of abstract landscape paintings was held at Mr MusicHead Art Gallery on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles California The exhibition was entitled Through the eyes of birds Remote Malibu canyons inspired the work and desert landscapes Also in 2015 Thompson announced that he would focus his endeavors on his artwork Close friends had long used Pearl as a nickname Thompsons first name was legally changed to Pearl in 2011 Source Article Pearl Thompson from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30