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Feb 22, 2024 · Ian Curtis, the enigmatic frontman of the post-punk band Joy Division, tragically died by suicide at the age of 23. His death on May 18, 1980, was a profound loss to the music world, just as Joy Division was on the cusp of their North American tour and the release of their second album, “Closer.”
May 18, 2020 · The death of Ian Curtis of Joy Division, who hanged himself in his kitchen aged 23 on the eve of an American tour – the culmination of spiralling depression, worsening epilepsy and marital...
May 25, 2020 · 25th May 2020. 2164. Monday 18th May marked forty years since Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division, took his own life by hanging himself in his kitchen using a washing line in the early hours of the morning.
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He died by suicide on the eve of what would have been the band's first North American tour in May 1980, aged 23. Joy Division's second and final album, Closer, was released two months later; it and the single "Love Will Tear Us Apart" became their highest-charting releases.
May 18, 1980: Joy Division’s Ian Curtis Dies. by Best Classic Bands Staff. Share This: Joy Division publicity photo. On the eve of the band’s first U.S. tour, Joy Division singer Ian Curtis hanged himself at the age of 23, on May 18, 1980, in the kitchen of his home in Macclesfield, England, using a clothesline.
Jul 15, 2021 · 15 July 2021. When Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis took his own life, he posthumously gained the iconic status attributed to most rock’n’roll stars who die prematurely. Yet, in so many ways, he didn’t fit the profile.
