“Slice of life” by Bauhaus

"Slice of Life" comes from Burning from the Inside, the fourth album by the English gothic rock band Bauhaus, released by Beggars Banquet on 15 July 1983, and Peter Murphy is nowhere near the microphone: guitarist Daniel Ash sings it. That was no stylistic whim. Murphy fell ill while the album was being made, so the others shouldered much of the writing and recording without him, and Ash and bassist David J wound up taking lead vocals on four of its songs.

The composing credit goes to Ash, David J, Kevin Haskins and Murphy himself, and the band produced it, with Ted Sharp and Derek Tompkins engineering. But making a record without its singer took a toll. The sessions had started without Murphy, cracks opened up inside the group, and Bauhaus had already broken up by the time the album reached the shops.

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