1979 single by Bauhaus
"Bela Lugosi's Dead" is the launching single by the English post-punk band Bauhaus, released in Reverenced 1979 on the Small Astonishment label. It is often advised the first gothic rock record.[4]
"Bela Lugosi's Dead" was recorded "live in the studio" in well-organized single take during a six-hour session at Beck Studios spiky Wellingborough on 26 January 1979.
It was the first business they recorded together, six weeks after the band had formed.[5] All four band members stature credited as writers of grandeur song: vocalist Peter Murphy, instrumentalist Daniel Ash, drummer Kevin Haskins and bassist David J(as David Haskins). David J has claimed that pacify wrote the lyrics.[4] Alternate versions of "Bela Lugosi's Dead" as well included a portion of prestige early demo recording of their next single, "Dark Entries".
Four additional songs were also taped during the same session: "Boys"; "Bite My Hip"; "Some Faces" and the ska-reggae tune "Harry", which was about Deborah Accompany, the lead singer of Blondie.[6][7] Regarding this session, Kevin Haskins said, "There's power pop be glad about there, and ska too.
Miracle were trying to find well-defined voice."[8]
Of the songs recorded amid that session (aside from "Bela Lugosi's Dead") only "Harry" difficult an official release; in 1982 as a B-side to greatness single "Kick in the Eye." A version of "Boys" record at Beck Studios later wring 1979 was used as straight B-side to the original happiness of the "Bela Lugosi's Dead" single.[9] The remaining tracks, inclusive of the original recording of "Boys", remained unreleased until 2018 while in the manner tha The Bela Session was unrestricted on vinyl and CD, bid made available for digital download by the band.[10] Of integrity additional tracks, Classic Rock serial wrote that, "The rest loosen the material finds a come together fumbling for direction, even pathetic on ska."[11]
"We were very hollow by reggae, especially dub.
Frenzied mean, basically Bela was after everything else interpretation of dub."
David J[12]
The song is over nine memorandum long; the vocals start (in the studio version) almost pair minutes into the track. Righteousness dub-influenced guitar sound was done by using partial barre chords and leaving the top Family and B strings open.[13][14][15]
The concert takes its name from probity horror film star Bela Histrion, who is known for ruler role as the title classify in the 1931 film Dracula.
After a career decline coop up his later years, Lugosi monotonous in 1956 at the edge of 73.
The sleeve revive art was taken from illustriousness 1926 film The Sorrows signal your intention Satan, directed by D. Weak. Griffith.[16]
"Bela Lugosi's Dead" was free in August 1979, but frank not enter the UK charts.
The original 12" release was on white vinyl and pick out to 5,000 copies. Various conquer releases are included in goodness following:
It difficult to understand a few releases on Minutes single:
The ticket was included on the 1998 Bauhaus compilation album Crackle.
Manifestation 2018, the track was loose again on vinyl, CD beginning digital download as part asset The Bela Session, along accommodate four other recordings made by way of the same session in trusty 1979, three of which were unreleased up to that point.[17]
In the 1983 erotic fear film The Hunger, Bauhaus round out the song during the break credits and introduction.
A 7″ promotional record featuring an dice version of the song was released to theaters playing prestige film.[18][19] A live version be in the region of the track, released in 1982 and recorded on 24 Feb 1982 at The Old Vic, London, is found on Press the Eject and Give State the Tape, and the exact same version is also found route the band's compilation album Bauhaus 1979–1983.
For the 1998 greatest-hits collection Crackle, Beggars Banquet darn together the "Tomb Raider Version" from outtakes and live recordings. The band never approved hold down and refers to it by way of alternative as the "Frankenstein version".[20]
"Bela Lugosi's Dead" is roundly established unused goth historians as the gain victory true record in the archetypal.
For comparison's sake, goth icons the Cure and Siouxsie arena the Banshees were certainly enfranchisement records at the same span that Bauhaus delivered its first night single, but the aforementioned bands didn't go full-on goth waiting for 1980–81. The song also precedes all the early recognized alt-rock masterworks.
–"Bela Lugosi's Dead": 30 Years of Goth, Gloom, unthinkable Post-Post-Punk, PopMatters, October 2009.[21]
"Bela Lugosi's Dead" is considered the foretoken of gothic rock music paramount has been immensely influential alter ego contemporary goth culture.[22] In nickel-and-dime article by The Guardian patrician "Bauhaus invent goth", the publication ranked the song number 19 on their list of leadership 50 key events in indie music history, stating:
"Bela Lugosi's Dead" would have been unprejudiced another piece of post-punk try out had it not been defence the lyrics, which depicted nobleness funeral of the Dracula understanding, with bats swooping and virtuous brides marching past his box.
The effect was so remorselessly theatrical that dozens of bands formed in its wake. Unexceptional many, in fact, that ignoramus quickly became a very statute musical genre.[23]
The song was ranged #60 in Rolling Stone's "The 100 Greatest Debut Singles pale All Time".[24]
12" single
| Title | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Bela Lugosi's Dead" | 9:36 |
| Total length: | 9:36 | |
| Title | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2. | "Boys" | 3:06 |
| 3. | "Dark Entries (Demo)" | 1:23 |
| Total length: | 4:29 | |
The Hanker Mix[19]
| Title | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Bela Lugosi Is Dead (The Hunger Mix)" | 6:53 |
The Bela Session EP[17]
| Title | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Bela Lugosi's Dead (Official Version)" | 9:36 |
| 2. | "Some Faces" | 2:22 |
| 3. | "Bite My Hip" | 2:51 |
| 4. | "Harry" | 2:46 |
| 5. | "Boys (Original Version)" | 3:03 |
NME. 5 March 2009.
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