Bauhaus invent goth

August 1979: Number 19 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicA few years ago, former Bauhaus frontman Pete Murphy slammed the phone down on a journalist who kept mentioning the word "goth". If he didn't like the tag, he only had himself to blame. The Northampton band's debut single seemed an improbable template for other bands to follow: a gloomy descending bassline repeating for the best part of 10 minutes, with a drum pattern and a preponderance of echoing effects evi...

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