"Dave Vanian becomes Mr. Nomad, while Roman Jugg turns into Sphinx Svenson, and Rat Scabies into Nick Detroit". Raggett, Ned. "Give Daddy the Knife Cindy". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 September 2006.
"Vanian's smart crooning and spooky theatricality ended up more or less founding goth rock inadvertently (with nearly all his clones forgetting what he always kept around—an open sense of humour)." allmusic (((The Damned > Biography)))