Jamaica: Saved by The Cure · Global Voices
Georgia Popplewell

In the summer of 1987, Jamaican writer Marlon James is saved by The Cure: “I don’t remember 1987 by any sequence of days and dates; I remember it by breaths I lost, gasping at “Just Like Heaven.” I can’t recall any major events but I do remember the sad drum clatter of “Like Cockatoos,” fighting against the thunder strings and the titanic, looping bass. . . .  I remember that being the exact point when loving something everybody else hates became the greatest pleasure in the world. . . “