Editing Robert Smith (musician) (section)

====Member of the Banshees, single with Tim Pope: 1983–1984====
The Glove's ''Blue Sunshine'' album and its lead single "[[Like an Animal (The Glove song)|Like an Animal]]" were both released in August 1983,<ref name="Butler, Glove">Butler, Daren, ''The Cure on Record'', (1995), Omnibus Press, pp. 47–50; {{ISBN|0-7119-3867-9}}</ref> followed by the Siouxsie and the Banshees' single "[[Dear Prudence]]" (a cover of the Beatles' song) in September, all on the Banshees' own label Wonderland Records.<ref name="Spiral Scratch, 1992"/><ref name="Sutherland 2"/> Smith officially became a member of the Banshees. According to the Banshees' authorised biography, "Dear Prudence" had been recorded at Smith's insistence to document his time with the group, and it became their biggest UK hit, reaching number 3 on the [[UK Singles Chart|Singles Chart]].<ref>Paytress, Mark. ''Siouxsie & the Banshees: The Authorised Biography'', (2003), Sanctuary, pp. 137, 143; {{ISBN|1-86074-375-7}}.</ref>

Shortly before the group's scheduled [[Royal Albert Hall]] concerts in September and October 1983, Siouxsie and the Banshees were also invited to participate in an episode of [[Channel 4]]'s television series "Play at Home", which they agreed to in order to take advantage of having the upcoming concerts filmed. Smith had previously suggested to Severin that "the Banshees shouldn't be doing tours, they should be doing something really ambitious like ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|The Wizard of Oz]]'' on stage", and Severin decided to adapt this idea for the "Play at Home" episode, substituting the Wizard of Oz concept with ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' to tie the theme with the Banshees' Wonderland recording label. The result was a 45-minute television programme featuring performances from Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Glove and the Creatures, in which all four members of the Banshees appeared in a recreation of the [[The Hatter|Mad Hatter's Tea Party]] dressed as [[Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)|Alice]], while each individual member scripted their own solo character performance and monologue. Musical interludes included the Glove performing "A Blues in Drag", the Creatures playing "Weathercade" and the whole band performing "Circle". The programme (which did not air on television until the following year) concluded with live footage of Siouxsie and the Banshees playing "Voodoo Dolly" and "Helter Skelter" live at the [[Royal Albert Hall]].<ref>Houlston, Billy. "Play at Home", ''The Siouxsie and the Banshees File: Phase Three, Issue 3 & 4'', October 1984.</ref> Meanwhile, both the Glove's second single, "[[Punish Me with Kisses]]", and the Banshees' live double album and companion video, ''[[Nocturne (Siouxsie and the Banshees album)|Nocturne]]'' from the Royal Albert Hall shows, appeared in November.<ref name="Sutherland 2"/><ref name="Butler, Glove"/> In March 1984, the next Banshees single to feature Smith on guitar and keyboards, "[[Swimming Horses]]" was released; Smith co-composed the new material with them. This was followed by "[[Dazzle (song)|Dazzle]]" in May, and finally the album ''[[Hyæna]]'' in June – Smith having left the Banshees the month prior to release, citing health issues due to his overloaded schedule.<ref name="Sutherland 2"/><ref>Thompson, Dave, and Jo-Ann Greene. ''The Cure – A Visual Documentary'', (1988), Omnibus Press, pp. 51–58; {{ISBN|0-7119-1387-0}}</ref><ref>Paytress, Mark. ''Siouxsie & the Banshees: The Authorised Biography'', (2003), Sanctuary, pp. 142–143; {{ISBN|1-86074-375-7}}.</ref>

Meanwhile, in between commitments to the Cure, the Glove and the Banshees, Smith also found time to perform on [[Tim Pope]]'s [[Syd Barrett]]-inspired<ref name="timpope.tv">[http://www.timpope.tv/projects/tim-pope-i-want-to-be-a-tree-video] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121116230602/http://www.timpope.tv/projects/tim-pope-i-want-to-be-a-tree-video|date=16 November 2012}}</ref> "I Want To Be A Tree" single.<ref name="Sutherland 2"/><ref>Butler, Daren, ''The Cure on Record'', (1995), Omnibus Press, p. 56. {{ISBN|0-7119-3867-9}}</ref> Pope at the time was the regular director of promotional videos for the Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Marc Almond, among others, but was taken aback when his fame on American MTV as a video director began to rival that of the bands he worked for.<ref name="timpope.tv"/><ref name="Pope 1984">"Tim Pope – I Want To Be A Tree" (Fiction/Polydor Promotional Folder), 1984.</ref> He described the project as "a real [[Pisstake|piss-take]] of what was going on in America", prompted by people referring to "Tim Pope Videos", and said that he "felt really strongly that they were not Tim Pope videos, they were Cure videos or Siouxsie videos or whatever".<ref name="Bowler & Dray, 1995, p. 108">Bowler, Dave, and Bryan Dray, ''The Cure – Faith'', (1995), Sidgwick & Jackson, p. 108; {{ISBN|0-283-06229-0}}</ref> Over the 1983 Christmas holidays, Pope and a friend, Charles Gray, recorded what Pope described as "this really stupid song" that they had co-written years earlier as teenagers.<ref name="timpope.tv"/><ref name="Pope 1984"/><ref name="Bowler & Dray, 1995, p. 108"/> Pope made an accompanying video for his [[Showreel (actors)|showreel]], asking several of the artists he worked with (The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, [[Soft Cell]], [[Talk Talk]], [[the Style Council]], [[Paul Young]] and [[Freur]])<ref name="Pope 1984"/> to "come along and slag me off on the showreel".<ref name="Bowler & Dray, 1995, p. 108"/> He then played the artists the song, while filming their reactions to it. ''[[The Old Grey Whistle Test]]'' screened the video, which Pope says resulted in several record deals being offered. The song was re-recorded with Robert Smith playing most instruments in January 1984,<ref name="Bowler & Dray, 1995, p. 108"/> produced by Chris Parry, and was released on Fiction Records (with a new video) in June.<ref name="Pope 1984"/>