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If you were able to be in London in 2018 for these 40th-anniversary Cure concerts, here are some beautiful mementos of the events—and if you weren’t, these will let you share in the atmospheric splendors that those lucky fans experienced. The DVDs and Blu-Ray discs bring you 28 songs the band played over two nights of the 25th Meltdown Festival at Royal Festival Hall in June 2018. Those performances journey chronologically across the band’s 13 studio albums, and include new songs, too. Then, you’ll see their 29-song Hyde Park concert ("Anniversary: 1978–2018 Live in Hyde Park London"), which traverses all four decades of their epic career. The boxed sets, which come with beautiful 40-page hardcover books, bring you both concerts spread across 4 CDs, too (the smaller two-disc editions include 16-page booklets). "Cureation" was filmed in HD and "Anniversary" is presented in 4K, and both boast 5.1 surround sound—this is a high-fidelity journey with the Cure from their post-punk beginnings to their glorious pop ascension: "Three Imaginary Boys," "10:15 Saturday Night," "Grinding Halt," "Boys Don’t Cry," "Inbetween Days," "Close to Me," "Caterpillar," "The Walk," "A Forest," "Jumping Someone Else’s Train," "Why Can’t I Be You," "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep," "Disintegration," "A Night Like This," "Fascination Street," "Burn," "Lovesong," "Pictures of You," "High," "Push," "KAA," "Lullaby," "Never Enough," "Want," "Sinking" and more! Eagle Rock.