Lol Tolhurst

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lol Tolhurst
Occupation	Drummer
Date Of Birth	Feb 3, 1959(1959-02-03)
Age	65
Birthplace	Hagley
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aquarius

Lol Tolhurst Biography

Lol Tolhurst is one of the most popular and richest Drummer who was born on February 3, 1959 in Hagley, England, United Kingdom. Laurence Andrew “Lol”, born 3 February 1959, is a founding member of The Cure and was the keyboardist and drummer for The Cure’s English band. In 1989, he left The Cure and became involved in Presence and Levinhurst. He was briefly reunited with Cure in 2011 for shows that featured the band’s older material.

Levinson and Tolhurst were both married. In 2002, the couple formed Levinhurst. They live in California with their one child.

In 2011, it was announced that Tolhurst would return to performing with the Cure for the first time in 22 years when the band performed their first three albums—Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds and Faith in their entirety at the Sydney Opera House in Australia. Tolhurst then performed with the Cure for seven more shows in London, New York and Los Angeles later that same year.

Following his departure from the Cure, Tolhurst and Gary Biddles—who previously worked with Simon Gallup in Fools Dance—formed the short-lived band Presence, which only released one full-length album at the time called Inside in 1993. He said several years later that he had recorded a second album with this band, but the album, entitled Closer, would not be released until 2014, a year after Biddles’ death. In 1991, Tolhurst’s first son was born in London, poet and musician Gray Andrew Tolhurst. In 1994, Tolhurst sued Robert Smith and Fiction Records over royalty payments, also claiming joint ownership, with Smith, of the name The Cure. He eventually lost after a long legal battle. He has worked as a producer for the debut album of And Also the Trees.

Tolhurst, his second wife Cindy Levinson, started a band called Levinhurst in the early 2000s. Tolhurst stated in an interview that he had reconnected with Robert Smith and that they were now friends. In 2004, Levinhurst released Perfect Life, their debut album. They have since released an EP called The Grey, which features a cover of “All Cats Are Grey” by The Cure. He also wrote two songs. Their second album, House by the Sea was released in April 2007. Blue Star, featuring Michael Dempsey from the original Cure, was released in the U.S.A in June 2009, and worldwide in February 2010. Tolhurst also composed the music for “Blue Star Over Europe”, a documentary that won the Best Documentary award at the Phoenix Film Festival 2010. The European tour’s second half, “Blue Star Over Europe”, was completed in October 2010. It was followed by a South- and North American tour that took place in early 2011.

Lol Tolhurst Net Worth

Lol Tolhurst is one of the richest Drummer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lol Tolhurst 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Tolhurst was one co-founder of English rock band The Cure. He was also the band’s drummer starting in 1976. He played on the albums Three Imaginary Boys and Seventeen Seconds. Faith and Pornography. He became the band’s keyboardist after the 1982 Pornography tour. Robert Smith asked Tolhurst to quit the Cure in late 1989, as he was suffering from alcoholism and narcotic addiction, which had adversely affected his professional reliability. Although Tolhurst was given a credit for Disintegration’s “other instrument”, the rest of the band said that Tolhurst didn’t play on the album.

Lol Tolhurst met Cindy Levinson shortly after leaving The Cure in 1989. Cindy was a Hollywood hairdresser.

In 2010, The Guardian published an article with a headline reading “The Cure’s original drummer asks to rejoin band.” However, Tolhurst called the article “a little misleading”, saying:

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Lol Tolhurst Dating?

According to our records, Lol Tolhurst married to Cindy Levinson. As of December 1, 2023, Lol Tolhurst’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Lol Ranked on the list of most popular Drummer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Lol Tolhurst celebrates birthday on February 3 of every year.

Top Facts about Lol Tolhurst

1. Lol Tolhurst is a British musician and founding member of The Cure.
2. He played drums and keyboards for the band from 1976-1989.
3. Tolhurst co-wrote many of The Cure’s early songs with Robert Smith.
4. He left the band due to alcohol addiction and personal conflicts.
5. After leaving The Cure, Tolhurst formed his own band called Levinhurst.
6. In recent years, he has worked as a producer and remixer for various artists.
7. Tolhurst published an autobiography in 2016 titled “Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys.”
8. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with The Cure in 2019.
9. Tolhurst currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
10. His contributions to The Cure’s sound have been influential to alternative music.

Why did Tolhurst leave the Cure?

In early 1989 during the recording of the Cure’s eighth studio long-player, entitled Disintegration, Tolhurst was asked to leave the band by Robert Smith due to alcohol and narcotic use adversely affecting his professional reliability.

Did Lol Tolhurst play on Disintegration?

Disintegration was the last album to feature founder member Lol Tolhurst. Another issue within the band at the time was with one of the founder members, Lol Tolhurst. He originally played drums on tracks like Boys Don’t Cry, but moved to keyboards in 1982 and unfortunately became sidelined in the studio.

How many of the Cure are original band members?

The band’s original incarnation featured vocalist and guitarist Robert Smith, bassist Michael Dempsey and drummer Lol Tolhurst. After the release and promotion of Three Imaginary Boys, Dempsey was replaced by Simon Gallup in November 1979, when keyboardist Matthieu Hartley also joined the band.

Did Simon quit The Cure?

The Cure bassist Simon Gallup announced Saturday that he is leaving the band after nearly 40 years with the goth-rock legends. “With a slightly heavy heart I am no longer a member of the Cure ! Good luck to them all,” Gallup wrote on Facebook.

Are The Cure splitting up?

Smith told The Sunday Times in June that he expects their upcoming album will be their last. The singer said the record will be “very emotional” and represent “10 years of life distilled into a couple of hours of intense stuff.” He concluded, “And I can’t think we’ll ever do anything else.