The Cure’s best-selling Disintegration album was nearly derailed by Elite

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of The Cure's 'Disintegration' - the critically acclaimed eighth album by the seminal English rock band, and their best-selling record to date. As it turns out, The Cure would unwind from their hectic schedules by playing the original Elite - until the addictive game threatened to become a fatal distraction and had to be banned.

The anecdote is straight from the memory of The Cure's keyboardist Roger O'Donnell, who reflected on making Disintegration in this diary (via Rob Manuel on Twitter). O'Donnell writes:

"There's a lot of waiting around in studios when you have nothing to do so playing games on the computer became quite addictive. We played this space trading game where you made money and bought stuff for your spaceship, like automatic docking and shields and weapons. I can't remember what it was called now (Elite), but eventually it was banned from the control room as it became a bit distracting, especially when Dave [presumably David M. Allen, The Cure's producer] was spending as much time on it as we were."

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