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Bela Lugosi's Dead

"Bela Lugosi's Dead"
Single by Bauhaus
B-side"Boys"
ReleasedAugust 1979
Recorded26 January 1979
StudioBeck Studios, Wellingborough
Genre
Length9:36
LabelSmall Wonder
Songwriter(s)
Bauhaus singles chronology
"Bela Lugosi's Dead"
(1979) 		"Dark Entries"
(1980)

"Bela Lugosi's Dead" is the debut single by the English post-punk band Bauhaus, released in August 1979 on the Small Wonder label. It is often considered the first gothic rock record.[4]

  1. ^ "Release The Bats – It's The 20 Greatest Goth Tracks – NME". NME. 5 March 2009.
  2. ^ Sande, Kiran (2 November 2010). "20 best: Goth records ever made". Fact. p. 1. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  3. ^ Andi Harrima (2022-10-31). "The 50 Best Goth Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  4. ^ Carpenter, Alexander (2012). "The 'Ground Zero' of Goth: Bauhaus, 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' and the Origins of Gothic Rock". Popular Music and Society. 35 (1). Abingdon, England: Routledge: 25–52. doi:10.1080/03007766.2010.537928. ISSN 1740-1712. S2CID 191488666.

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