As we all know because of all the hilarious stuff posted to Twitter yesterday, Queen Elizabeth II died yesterday (September 8) at the age of 96. But while you were busy posting songs and record covers of The Smiths, it was actually The Cure who knew all along how this was going to go down.
Turns out, Robert Smith very nearly predicted the Queen’s death date a decade ago. And it’s pretty eerie.
Smith granted an interview back in 2012 at Hurricane Festival in Germany, and towards the end, growing increasingly uncomfortable with the chat, he boldly predicted Queen Elizabeth would die on September 7.
He gave no year, and we can probably assume he meant 2012, as the interview takes place in July. But hey, that’s close enough. Queen Elizabeth ultimately died on September 8, though a decade later. Even Nostradamus himself could mix up 2012 with 2022 depending on the penmanship.
“The Queen’s gonna die on September the 7th,” Smith tells the interviewer, plotting his escape from the journalist’s grip. “And there’ll be a huge uprising, and I’ll be made king. Can we end it…?”
His remarks comes around the 36:00 mark of the video, just as the chat concludes. But goth-pop duo WINGTIPS have gone and done the dirty work, posting the goods to Twitter for all the world to see.
And here we all were giving Morrissey the time of day again.
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Watch the full interview below.