Half Decade: Silence Tumult and Music Career

half decade: He was heading into the blue yonder in a desperate attempt to silence the tumult in this head, the chaos that had come crashing down on his music career, according to The Independent. He didn't tell anyone but he suspected that, after four albums and a lifetime of upheaval stuffed into half a decade, it might be the end for the band. The Cure frontman was about to step outside the door of his parent's house in Crawley, West Sussex, and away from the goth-rock troupe he had led to unlikely success across the previous six years. As far as Smith was concerned, The Cure were over. Everything seemed to be going wrong, Smith would recall. And so here he was, a literally unhappy camper about to hit the road. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.