INFO
In January 1978, Easy Cure went into PSL studios with producer Trevor Vallis to do more demos for Hansa. The songs from the last recording session were: Plastic Passion, I Just Need Myself, Rebel Rebel and Smashed Up.
STORY
"They were giving us all these old songs to cover. We couldn't believe it. This was 1978 and we thought we'd ba able to do all these new songs we'd written and all they wanted from us were versions of really banal old rock 'n' roll songs...
"Anyway, they said 'This is a very well-known producer and this is your last chance boys', so we went in and did Plastic Passion, I Just Need Myself, Rebel Rebel and Smashed Up - the worst song we ever recorded. The only really remarkable thing about the whole day was that Lol got knocked over by a bus! We had to spend a couple of hours holding him up in the pub, pouring brandy down his throat. He spent the rest of the day playing drums and bleeding. It was cack.
"On top of all this I had suddenly realised that I actually hated the songs we were doing and that, even if Hansa liked them, we wouldn't follow through." Robert Smith on Ten Imaginary Years (1988)