Seventeen Seconds

Seventeen Seconds
Studio album by
Released18 April 1980[1]
Recorded1979–1980
StudioMorgan, London
Genre
Length35:40
LabelFiction
Producer
The Cure chronology
Boys Don't Cry
(1980)
Seventeen Seconds
(1980)
Faith
(1981)
Singles from Seventeen Seconds
  1. "A Forest"
    Released: 28 March 1980

Seventeen Seconds is the second studio album by English rock band the Cure, released on 18 April 1980 by Fiction Records. The album marked the first time frontman Robert Smith co-produced with Mike Hedges. After the departure of original bassist Michael Dempsey, Simon Gallup became an official member along with keyboardist Matthieu Hartley. The single "A Forest" was the band's first entry in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart.

  1. ^ "Cure dates" (PDF). Record Mirror. 29 March 1980. p. 4. Retrieved 21 July 2022.