Michael Dempsey

Biography

Michael Stephen Dempsey (born 29 November 1958) is an English musician, best known as the bassist for the Cure and the Associates.

Dempsey was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now known as Harare, Zimbabwe). His family later settled in Crawley, West Sussex, where he was a school friend of future bandmates Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst. Along with various classmates, the three first formed a band called the Obelisk in 1972, which eventually evolved into the Easy Cure and finally the Cure, the original lineup of which consisted of Dempsey on bass, alongside Smith and Tolhurst.

Upon the official formation of the Cure in 1978, Dempsey was the band's bassist starting with their first singl...