Simon Johnathon Gallup (born 1 June 1960) is an English musician and bassist with the alternative rock band The Cure. He is the second longest-serving member of the band after lead vocalist/guitarist Robert Smith.

Born in Duxhurst, Surrey, Simon's family moved to Horley in 1961 where he attended Horley Infants and Junior Schools until 1971, followed by Horley Comprehensive School (now Oakwood secondary school) to 1976. Between 1976 and 1978 he worked in a plastics factory and became the bass player for local punk band Lockjaw, who later evolved into the Magazine Spies (1979–1980), also known as the Mag/Spys. Lockjaw and the Mag/Spys played regular live shows with Easy Cure and later the Cure between 1977 and 1979, and after collaborating in the studio on the Cult Hero recording sessions in October 1979, both Gallup and keyboardist Matthieu Hartley left the Mag/Spys to join the Cure. Former Mag/Spys Gallup, Hartley and Stuart Curran later performed together under the name of the Cry and later Fools Dance during Gallup's hiatus from the Cure between 1982 and 1984.

Gallup first joined the Cure in 1979, replacing Michael Dempsey on bass guitar. He also has been credited for occasionally playing the keyboards, particularly after Matthieu Hartley's departure in 1980. He took over keyboard lines for many of the songs that Hartley played. Examples of songs he played keyboard on live include "At Night", "A Forest", "A Strange Day" and "Pornography". During "Cold" he multi-tasked playing bass guitar and bass pedals.

On the Swing Tour in 1996, he played twelve-string acoustic guitar on "This Is a Lie". On the Dream Tour in 2000 he played a Fender Bass VI on "There Is No If".

Gallup is also credited with singing lead vocals for a demo for "Violin Song". Gallup first performed on the Cure albums that make up "The Dark Trilogy": Seventeen Seconds, Faith, and Pornography.

During the Pornography Tour in 1982, a series of incidents prompted Gallup to leave the Cure, including an incident on 27 May 1982 after a live performance at Hall Tivoli, Strasbourg, France when he got into a fist fight with Robert Smith at a nightclub in Strasbourg reportedly over a bar tab.

Gallup has said that "I was about to leave when some guy came up and told me I hadn't paid for my drinks. He thought I was Robert. I was knackered but the bloke took me up to the bar and Robert appeared to see what was going on. I hit him, he responded and we had a fight". ...

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Simon Johnathon Gallup est un musicien anglais, bassiste, né le 1er juin 1960 à Duxhurst, dans le Surrey. C'est le bassiste des Cure.

Il a intégré le groupe The Cure en 1979, Robert Smith ayant des divergences artistiques avec le bassiste Michael Dempsey à propos des démos de l'album Seventeen Seconds. Simon Gallup participe à l'élaboration des disques les plus expérimentaux produits par The Cure durant les années 1980: Seventeen Seconds, Faith et Pornography.

Au niveau musical, il déclare avoir été beaucoup influencé par Paul Simonon du groupe The Clash, et surtout par Jean-Jacques Burnel des Stranglers.

Simon Gallup joue essentiellement sur basses Gibson Thunderbird, Fender Precision Bass, Music Man StingRay Bass, Fender VI, Fender Jazz Bass, Rickenbacker 4001 et dispose de sa propre basse "signature" Schecter.

Il quitte le groupe en 1982 après une altercation avec Smith pendant une tournée assurant la promotion de l'album Pornography.

Par la suite il fait brièvement partie du groupe The Cry qu'il monte avec Mathieu Hartley, puis fonde Fools Dance avec Gary Biddles. Le poste de bassiste au sein de The Cure a alors été occupé par Phil Thornalley jusqu'à ce que Robert Smith rappelle Simon fin 1984. Il prend alors part à l'enregistrement de The Head on the Door (1985) qui permettra au groupe d'obtenir une reconnaissance mondiale. Robert déclare ne se sentir bien que lorsque Simon est présent. Simon Gallup a composé quelques titres (par exemple High, sur l'album Wish sorti en 1992, et la musique de The Perfect Girl sur Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me) et demeure l'un des piliers de The Cure. Il est, avec Robert Smith, le membre le plus ancien.

Le 14 août 2021, Simon Gallup annonce son départ officiel en tant que membre de The Cure par une publication sur son compte Facebook: «With a slightly heavy heart I am no longer a member of the Cure! Good luck to them all ...» (traduit en «Le cœur un peu lourd je ne suis plus membre de The Cure! Bonne chance à eux...»). Lorsqu'une fan s'inquiète sur sa santé via un commentaire sous sa publication, celui-ci répond: «Je vais bien… j’en ai juste marre de la trahison».

Mi-octobre il annonce via les réseaux sociaux son retour au sein de The Cure.

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Simon Gallup ist ein britischer Musiker und seit 1979 Bassist in der Band The Cure mit einer Unterbrechung von Sommer 1982 bis Frühjahr 1985.