Title: Who was the first goth? A brief history of goth for World Goth Day | Metro News
Headings: Who was the first goth? A brief history of goth for World Goth Day
Who was the first goth? A brief history of goth for World Goth Day
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Content: Goth music, movies, fashion and lifestyles have been around for yonks, and Whitby Goth Weekend still commands serious dedication and sartorial excellence every year. But where does ‘goth’ come from, who was the first ever goth and when did goth music start? Pause
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A gathering of goths in Whitby at the Vampire Society weekend, 1992 (Picture: Getty)
Goth, or at least the movement we know of today, began in the late 1960s. And it was first used to describe music – specifically, the sound of The Doors, Jim Morrison’s rock band. Critic John Stickney coined the term ‘gothic rock’ way back in 1967 when describing a Doors gig, so it may be argued that Jim Morrison was the first modern goth. Tim Burton movies, like his adaptation of Sweeney Todd, are infused with goth (Picture: Paramount)
Stickney wrote that the cavernous venue was ‘the perfect room to honour the Gothic rock of the Doors’. That same year, Velvet Underground’s track All Tomorrow’s Parties was also described as a ‘mesmerising gothic-rock masterpiece’ by Kurt Loder.