of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb. “I think Jake’s original vision for our version was Sisters of Mercy meets Cher, so we definitely ended up upsetting some prog rock fans,” Babydaddy says with a smile. The album, one of the UK’s 40 best-sellers of all time, will be reissued ...
“We are the children of Altamont,” Eldritch has said of the Sisters of Mercy, which pinpoints their genesis to the very moment when things started falling apart: hippy utopia ushered out by actual violence; rock stars positioned as ill-equipped spokespeople for the chaos in their audience. ...