Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died. He was 65.

The band announced his death on their official website on Friday.

“It is with enormous sadness that we confirm the death of our great friend and bandmate Perry Bamonte, who passed away after a short illness at home over Christmas,” the band wrote.

“Quiet, intense, intuitive, constant and hugely creative, ‘Teddy’ was a warm hearted and vital part of The Cure story,” the statement continued. “Our thoughts and condolences are with all his family. He will be very greatly missed.”

Bamonte worked with the band in various roles from 1984 to 1989, including as a roadie and guitar tech. He officially joined the band in 1990, when keyboardist Roger O’Donnell quit. It was then that he became a full-time member of the group, playing guitar, six-string bass and keyboard.

Having joined just after the band’s mainstream breakthrough, 1989’s “Disintegration,” Bamonte is featured on a number of The Cure’s albums, including 1992’s “Wish” – which features the career-defining hits ″Friday I’m in Love″ and “High” – as well as the 1996’s “Wild Mood Swings,” 2000’s “Bloodflowers” and 2004’s self-titled release.

Bamonte was fired from The Cure by its singer and leader, Robert Smith, in 2005. At that point, he had performed at over 400 shows across 14 years. Bamonte rejoined the group in recent years, touring with the band in 2022 for another 90 gigs.

In 2019, Bamonte was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame alongside the rest of The Cure. He joined The Cure on their North American tour in 2024 when the band reduced tickets to as low as $20 after pledging to make the shows affordable for fans following complaints about exorbitant fees.  Lead singer Robert Smith said at the time he was “sickened” by the Ticketmaster fee debacle. 

His last performance with the band was on Nov. 1, 2024 in London for a special one-off event to launch their latest album and first in 16 years, “Songs of a Lost World.” The concert was filmed for “The Cure: The Show of a Lost World,” a film released in cinemas globally this month. It is also available to purchase on Blu-ray and DVD.

Melissa Gilbert reunited with her old Little House on the Prairie co-star Melissa Sue Anderson after many years apart.

The two actresses, who played sisters Laura and Mary Ingalls on the show, shared heartfelt moment over the weekend.

Gilbert posted a photo of them together on social media, saying that the meeting was full of laughter, tears and long talks that helped them heal old wounds.

The actress explained that their past disagreements are now behind them and that they could finally enjoy the friendship they always wanted.

However, fans quickly reacted online, sharing their happiness and excitement over the reunion.

In earlier interviews, the animated Batman star talked about the tension she and Anderson faced during the show, describing fights and misunderstandings while filming.

Despite those challenges, time and reflection helped the actresses reconnect.

The reunion also came after Gilbert and fellow co-star Dean Butler paid tribute to their late friend Michael Landon.

Landon, who played Charles Ingalls on the series, was like a father figure to the young cast.

Gilbert and Butler used the moment to raise awareness about pancreatic cancer, the disease that took Landon’s life.

Jack Black reflected on the time when he was not an actor and was pushing through one day at a time.

A Minecraft Movie star made an embarrassing confession about his life before coming in limelight.

Sitting down with his Anaconda co-star Paul Rudd on Rotten Tomatoes, they interviewed each other, where Paul asked him about if he had any jobs before acting.

“Oh my God, this is a shameful answer. I never had a job,” Black said.

Black then recalled one job that he briefly held: “I did one day of telemarketing and I didn’t make one sale, and I was like, ‘I can already tell my soul is being sucked.’ And I bailed, and I made a decision right then and there.”

“It was like, ‘It’s showbiz or bust. I’m going all in on acting or music, and if I can’t do it I’ll just live at my mom’s,’ ” he said. “I know that just sounds [weird]. I had no plan B, no backup.”

Anaconda stars Black and Rudd alongside Steve Zahn and Thandiwe Newton as a group of amateur filmmakers traveling to the Amazon jungle to reboot the original movie.

Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube, who co-starred in the original 1997 movie, also made surprise cameos in the film.

Anaconda is now running in cinemas.