Title: Andrew Eldritch - Wikipedia
Headings: Andrew Eldritch
Andrew Eldritch
Contents
Early life and education
Musical career
The Sisters of Mercy
Songwriting and philosophy
Gothic associations
Guest appearances
Cultural references
References

Content: Songwriting and philosophy
The devices in Eldritch's lyrics include literary allusions (notably to the works of T. S. Eliot, Leonard Cohen and Shakespeare ), erotic imagery, and drug culture metaphors. He has made pointed criticism of the Republican Party of the United States, a group with which Eldritch claims to have a "hate-hate" relationship,. Politically, he has claimed to be "traditionally a Labour supporter" despite his " anarcho-syndicalist tendencies". Gothic associations
Though Andrew Eldritch has been called the "Godfather of Goth", for inspiring and defining the gothic scene musically and aesthetically, the Sisters of Mercy, despite being formed in 1980, were originally not very popular in the early-1980s post-punk subgenre of bands and music fans which the British press had labelled Goth. The Sisters of Mercy were, however, accused by the press of plagiarising Joy Division, who were marketed by their management as "gothic" in the late 1970s. Since the early 1990s, Eldritch has publicly rejected associations with the Goth subculture. He describes the Sisters of Mercy as humanist, modernist, and implies he wants nothing to do with Goth, stating: " it's disappointing that so many people have in all seriousness adopted just one of our many one-week-of-stupid-clothes benders." He also notes: " I'm constantly confronted by representatives of popular culture who are far more goth than we, yet I have only to wear black socks to be stigmatised as the demon overlord."