UK Goth

Goth didn't start with Bauhaus. Before 1979, before 'Bela Lugosi's Dead,' the seeds were already planted—Bowie's skeletal Thin White Duke, Alice Cooper's theatrical macabre, the Velvet Underground's drones. By 1976, Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin were prowling Roxy Music gigs in South London, bored with glam's fade, hungry for something sharper. That September at the 100 Club Punk Festival, Siouxsie improvised a twenty-minute Lord's Prayer with Sid Vicious on drums. She wasn't creating goth. She was channeling something older—German Expressionism meets Victorian mourning meets punk's scorched-earth attitude.