Music of the macabre: revisiting goth's evolution – from the vaults

The Birthday Party evoked depravity and nihilism, Joy Division rocked sex and death and Siouxsie became a raven-haired role model. Rock’s Backpages revisits Cathi Unsworth’s 1989 piece in Sounds magazine about the genesis of goth“That man cared for you, that man died for you, that man saw the madness in your area.” So ran Sounds’ near-hysterical tribute to the late Ian Curtis, the tragic singer of Joy Division. It was May 1980, and Curtis’ suicide by hanging w