broadcast on 3 January 1980

The single received a positive review in Sounds and stayed on the British independent charts for two years. It received crucial airplay on BBC Radio 1 and DJ John Peel ‘s evening show. The band recorded a session for Peel’s show, which was broadcast on 3 January 1980. After the band introduced themselves on his show, Peel said, “We’ve got Bauhaus in the studio, they’re from Northampton and they have a new single out called ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’. It’s nine and a half minutes long and this will probably be the first and last time I’ll play this.” After the initial broadcast, according to Murphy, “The BBC switchboard was jammed with listeners wanting him to play it again.” Of the additional tracks, Classic Rock wrote that, “The rest of the material finds a band fumbling for direction, even touching on ska .”