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May 20, 2015 · Interview. Joy Division: 'Everyone calls us Nazis' – a classic interview from the vaults. Mick Middles. To mark the recent 35th anniversary of the death of Ian Curtis, here’s a classic...
May 18, 2010 · Thirty years ago today, the music world lost one of its most unique and powerful young voices when Ian Curtis, lead singer and songwriter of Joy Division, committed suicide just hours...
Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Ian Curtis, guitarist/keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris. Sumner and Hook formed the band after attending a June 1976 Sex Pistols concert.
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. He was certainly an integral part of an acclaimed, future-shaping band whose star was in the ascendant but, unlike Jimi ...
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...
Apr 9, 2019 · April 9, 2019. The approach to Joy Division is forbidding. This band comes sealed in a myth of monumental severity, outside rock and roll to some degree, its achievement arrested at the point...
Mar 24, 2019 · Peter Hook (Joy Division): Ian was the instigator. We used to call him the Spotter. Ian would be sat there and he’d say: “That sounds good, let’s get some guitar to go with that.” You...
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