HOME: Someone else’s train.

AGE: Just a babe in the wilderness.

PROFESSION: Drowning man.

HOBBIES: Reading Camus, standing on the beach, dressing up the piggy in the mirror, letting his hair go this way & that, exploring plastic passion, going to bed, living happily ever after...

LAST BOOK READ: Pornography by Edwin Meese.

LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Shaving his head!

QUOTE: “I hate Meese’s to pieces.”

PROFILE: One of the first British bands to be called “post-punk,” our hero and his Cure comrades merged rock elements with the place where Joy Division left off, releasing numerous LPs that had Bob skirting between psychosis and manic-depression—with a dance beat! Considering the radio and dance club success of “Let’s Go To Bed,” plus their stunning new singles anthology, rockin’ dude Smith & boys are on the verge of major, major stardom.

BEER: Boy Howdy!