On this day in 1979, Bauhaus released their debut single, the iconic "Bela Lugosi's Dead" - a sound that would define a subculture for decades to come.

Wait wait wait… before today the only version of this song I’ve heard was by Opera IX, I had no idea that was a cover. ;p youtu.be/8fIGHMrmiBM?...

As featured in the opening of Bowie’s vampire movie The Hunger. At the time I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen