The day before a pivotal first tour of the United States, he hanged himself. Their singer, Ian Curtis, was so intense onstage that he had epileptic fits. They wore stark, photogenic clothes and haunted the hollowed-out cities of a decaying northern England. In that time they released two albums and a few other songs: a pop music close to unique in its icy, addictive bleakness. They played their first concert in January 1978 and their last in May 1980. 'He's frank, incredibly funny, and it isn't shy' Artrocker 32.O f all the great doomed rock bands, with their mayfly lives and drawn-out, highly profitable after-lives, few have a legend as potent and precisely defined as Joy Division.

9781471148330 Unknown Pleasures 32.8000 NZD InStock /shop/books/non-fiction/biography-memoir /shop/books /shop/books/non-fiction 'Genuinely funny indeed, the story will keep you entertained for a very long time' Sunday Times 'He's frank, incredibly funny, and it isn't shy' Artrocker 'Hook lifts the lid on the real Ian Curtis' NME if you like Joy Division, you really have to read it' Q Magazine 'A bittersweet, profanity-filled recollection. having read Hook's book, you'll feel like you were the fifth member of the band' GQ 'An immense account of Joy Division's rise. it's a window like no other into the reality of life in this most aloof of bands' Metro Few pop music books manage that' Guardian 'Hook has restored a flesh-and-blood rawness to what was becoming a standard tale. This is the rollercoaster story of Joy Division - the friendships, fights, fall-outs the rehearsals and recording sessions the larger than life characters - told by the band's legendary bassist, Peter Hook. Godfathers of the enduring alternative scene, they reinvented rock in the post-punk era, creating a sound - dark, hypnotic, intense - that would influence U2, Morrissey, R.E.M., Radiohead and many others. 'Genuinely funny indeed, the story will keep you entertained for a very long time' Sunday Times This is the rollercoaster story of Joy Division - the friendships, fights, fall-outs the rehearsals and recording sessions the la.

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