69 Eyes frontman Jyriki 69 gives us his run-down of the top 5 Goth pin-ups.

Tura Satana
“She was in Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! – she played a kung fu-fighting, man-eating, fast sports car-driving lady. Very cool. Her look has been very influential on the new wave of burlesque.”
See what he means in this YouTube Tura Satana compilation.

Vampira
“Of course Vampira needs to be included – she is Finnish! Maila Nurmi played Vampira on TV and was in Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space. She is a proper gothic icon from the black and white cinema era.”

Queen Vixen
“There was a band around in the 80s called the Cycle Sluts From Hell. Queen Vixen was the black-haired girl from the group and the ultimate gothic godess. I Wish You Were A Beer was Beavis and Butthead’s favourite video. And mine too.”
Check out Cycle Sluts From Hell’s ‘I Wish You Were A Beer’.

Elvira
“I was a member of Elvira’s fan club in the 1980s. I saw her in Fangoria magazine and I was like, ‘Wow. That is… interesting.’ I had a door-sized poster of her that shows her in a coffin in black underwear.”
The finale of ‘Elvira: Mistress Of the Dark’, one of the finest motion pictures of our time.

Siouxsie Sioux
“Siouxsie’s an icon. She still makes great music and looks amazing. I saw a video of her recently and she’s still kung fu kicking on the stage. My favourite Siouxsie And The Banshees song is probably Cities In Dust or their cover version of Iggy Pop’s The Passenger.”
See Siouxsie Sioux’s ‘Into A Swan’ video.