10 Best Image Changes In Music History
8. Robert Smith Swapped Preppy For Uber-Goth
One of the most successful artists to have emerged from the British post-punk movement in the late 1970s, Robert Smith begun his life in the music industry with the formation of Easy Cure in 1976. The band later became known as The Cure and they quickly became known throughout goth subcultures through songs like Boy's Don't Cry and A Forest.
The band struggled to really break into too much regular commercial success however, and regular disagreements and lineup changes halted their progress in the early 1980s. That all changed in 1983 however when Smith began collaborating with Tim Pope, who helped the band find success with more upbeat, glossy music videos for Let's Go To Bed and Inbetween Days.
As The Cure continued to move more towards a commercial tone with songs like Just Like Heaven and Close to Me, Smith began adopting his iconic look of big black hair, pale complexions and striking red lipstick. Almost as famous as the music itself, the shift from skinny prep-school lookalikes to super-gothic kings is a music shift that audiences still go mad for even today.