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===Family=== Smith has an older brother named Richard, an older sister named Margaret, and a younger sister named Janet. He has said that he is significantly younger than Richard and Margaret because his mother "wasn't supposed to have" him: "And once [my parents] got me, they didn't like the idea of having an only child, so they had my sister. Which is good, because I would have hated not having a younger sister."<ref name="Revolution, September 1989"/> He has described Janet as a "piano prodigy"<ref name="Guitar Player, 1992"/> and "the family's musical genius" who was too shy to become a performer herself.<ref name="Revolution, September 1989"/> As well as participating in the Crawley Goat Band since around 1973, Janet played keyboards for [[I'm a Cult Hero|Cult Hero]] in 1979, to which Margaret contributed backing vocals.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/Cure-Seventeen-Seconds/release/493031 |title=Cure, The β Seventeen Seconds |date=25 April 2005 |publisher=Discogs.com |access-date=28 September 2014}}</ref><ref>Barbarian, L., Steve Sutherland and Robert Smith. ''Ten Imaginary Years'', (1988) Zomba Books; {{ISBN|0-946391-87-4}}</ref> Janet, together with Simon Gallup's then-girlfriend Carol (both dressed as schoolgirls) with real-life schoolboy band the Obtainers, sang backing vocals for Cult Hero at the [[Marquee Club]] as the opening act for [[The Passions (British band)|the Passions]] in March 1980.<ref>Thompson, Dave & Jo-Ann Greene. ''The Cure β A Visual Documentary'' (1988), Omnibus Press, p. 22; {{ISBN|0-7119-1387-0}}</ref> The Cure's in-house design company Parched Art created the album cover for the Cure's ''[[The Head on the Door]]'' using a manipulated photograph of Janet taken by the band's guitarist and album cover artist [[Pearl Thompson]].<ref>"Questions and Answers", ''Cure News 4'', January 1988</ref><ref>Butler, Daren, ''The Cure on Record'', (1995), Omnibus Press, p. 61; {{ISBN|0-7119-3867-9}}</ref> Janet had known Thompson since they were children,<ref>Tesseyre, Cecile. "The Cure", ''Paris Match'', August 1986.</ref> and the pair began dating during his early tenure as lead guitarist for Malice and the Easy Cure.<ref>Apter, Jeff. ''Never Enough: The Story of The Cure'', (2009), Omnibus Press, pg. 34; {{ISBN|978-1-84772-739-8}}</ref> During the mid-1980s, Janet gave up a professional career as a pianist to spend more time with Thompson and the Cure,<ref name="Perfect Cure" /> and the couple were married in March 1988, making Smith and Thompson brothers-in-law until the couple divorced in 2000.<ref>"Questions and Answers", ''Cure News 5'', May 1988</ref> Janet is also credited with having taught Smith's guitar technician [[Perry Bamonte]] to play piano while the band were recording ''[[Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me]]'', prior to Bamonte joining the group as keyboardist in 1990.<ref>Phillips, Shaun. "Making Up The Cure", ''[[Vox (magazine)|VOX]]'', November 1992</ref> According to Bamonte, "With the patience of a saint, she spent a month teaching me the rudiments of playing piano. Before this, I knew nothing."<ref>Apter, Jeff. ''Never Enough: The Story of The Cure'', (2009) Omnibus Press, p. 250; {{ISBN|978-1-84772-739-8}}</ref> During a concert at [[Tauron Arena KrakΓ³w]] on 20 October 2022, the Cure dedicated their song "I Can Never Say Goodbye" to Richard, who had recently died.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pearis |first=Bill|title=Watch The Cure debut new song "I Can Never Say Goodbye" in Poland |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-the-cure-debut-new-song-i-can-never-say-goodbye-in-poland/ |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=BrooklynVegan |date=21 October 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
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