This GUITAR INTRO is SO BADA$$-I HAVE To HEAR It 10 TIMES Every Time I PLAY It!! | Professor of Rock
5,649Today’s story has it all. A song by The Cult called She Sells Sanctuary that divides fans so much that one punched the singer Ian Astbury in the face. Then, a producer wanted to work with the band so badly that he stole their demo tape from his rival. And then The Cult's drummer stole a car on his way to the music video shoot and was arrested. And then the secret sauce of She Sells Sanctuary actually came from the ace guitarist playing his instrument with a violin bow. All of this happened with today’s hard rock classic. Today’s all-out rocker Ian Astbury launched this underground band into the international spotlight and made them one of the coolest bands of their time. Get the story of how The Cult fought back and established themselves as an iconic act for the ages. So Iconic that both New Wave kids and Metal-Heads loved them… It's the most mystical song of 1985, next on Professor of Rock.
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I’m excited to return to another one of my favorite shows that we do on this channel. It’s called Breakthrough. In this show we breakdown songs, albums or events that kicked open the door to an artist or band’s career and gave them the momentum to rocket to long term success. On previous episodes we have covered Boys Don’t Cry by The Cure, Nobody’s Fool by Cinderella, and Silent Lucidity by Queensryche.
Today we are telling the story of a band that was beloved by all cliques in school Whether the metal guys or the wavers or the punks… It’s The Cult and their breakout classic, She Sells Sanctuary, from their 1985 sophomore LP ‘Love’. Seriously, outside of only a few bands like the Cars, everyone loved the Cult. It did’t matter if you were into metal or new wave or punk or rock or pop everybody appreciated this band… So let’s get into it.
Back in 1981, frontman Ian Astbury founded the post-punk, goth rock outfit ‘Southern Death Cult’ in Bradford, England. For the band’s name he drew inspiration from an old term for a mound-building Native American society in the Southeast US. In his formative years, Ian had lived in Ontario, Canada and became an avid student of Native American culture. It was a theme that he would routinely incorporate into his songwriting. Southern Death Cult released their first single, “Moya" in December 1982 and went on tour with Bauhaus the following month.
Despite a promising future, Astbury grew frustrated with the press’s coverage of the band, which pegged them as “positive punk.” So Ian disbanded the Southern Death Cult in 1983. Dropping the word “Southern” from their name, Ian formed the ‘Death Cult’ with ex-Theatre of Pain guitarist Billy Duffy, bassist Jamie Stewart, and drummer Ray Mondo. Death Cult released an eponymous EP in the summer of 1983. Later that year, Mondo was replaced by Nigel Preston, who had played with Duffy in Theatre of Hate…
But to avoid being pigeonholeed as a gothic act, the band members chopped their name down to size one more time, calling themselves ‘The Cult’… That was in 1984. And I guess this is as good a time as any to mention that through the Cult’s long-tenured history, only two band members have remained constants… Ian Astbury