There’s a long tradition of goth bands writing songs that use a one word female name for the title – Laura, Marian, Alice and Christine to name some of my favourites. I doubt Peter Murphy would class his solo work as goth but the audiences at his gigs quite often fit that label.

Either way, his latest album, Lion, includes this track – Eliza – and the sad old goth inside me approves.

[Eliza – Peter Murphy by Philip Harris first appeared on Solitary Mindset on 23rd July 2014]