There were always a few of these strange pale creatures around, but in 1985 chart action from Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure,
and the Sisters of Mercy pushed them out of the darkness and into
the mainstream for a short while.
Sporting dyed black hair, white makeup, leather and lace clothing
and a permanently miserable expression, they swayed along the catwalks.
But soon they were banished once again to drift around the bus
stops and shopping precincts of suburbia.
Siouxsie
and the Banshees
