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May 18, 2020 · Curtis, 23, hung himself in the kitchen of his Macclesfield, U.K. home, exactly two months to the day before the eventual release of Joy Division’s second LP, Closer — their follow-up to 1979 ...
May 18, 2022 · Members of the band Joy Division have called for better mental health support during a panel in the Houses of Parliament marking 42 years to the day since their frontman Ian Curtis killed himself ...
Sep 15, 1983 · The suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis left Joy Division with a legacy of gloom. Despite their heavy history, the survivors – in the form of New Order – have become one of the first-rank rock ...
A suicide note or death note is a message written by a person who intends to die by suicide . A study examining Japanese suicide notes estimated that 25–30% of suicides are accompanied by a note. However, incidence rates may depend on ethnicity and cultural differences, and may reach rates as high as 50% in certain demographics. [1]
May 18, 2010 · Rob Verhorst/Redferns. 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 ...
18 May marks the 30th anniversary of the suicide of Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division, who was just 23 when he hanged himself. Curtis's work comprises little more than two dozen songs recorded over 3 years but it remains disproportionately influential. A lineage can be traced from Joy Division through Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure ...
Ian Curtis was the front man of the post-punk band Joy Division. He suffered from epilepsy and actively incorporated his experiences of the disease in his lyrics. Curtis had frequent epileptic seizures, both on and off stage. After dying from suicide in 1980, he became a legend in the post-punk milieu. The impact which the epilepsy, the ...
