by Peter Hook
18 May 1980
The day before the band are scheduled to leave for America, Ian commits suicide. The ‘joint’ North American tour with Cabaret Voltaire would have opened at Hurrahs in New York on 21 May, taking in Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Los Angeles after that. Martin Hannett was committed to mix the live sound on this tour.
23 May 1980
Ian Curtis is cremated. Factory hold their own wake at Palatine Road and screen the Sex Pistols film The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle.
13 June 1980
The inquest into Ian’s death is held, Macclesfield.
27 June 1980
‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ twelve-inch (FAC 23.12) released.
18 July 1980
Closer (Factory Records FACT 25) released. Produced by Martin Hannett at Brittania Row, London. Engineered by Martin Hannett and John Caffery assisted by Michael Johnson. Photograph by Bernard Pierre Wolff. Designed by Peter Saville, Martyn Atkins, Chris Mathan. Track list: ‘Atrocity Exhibition’, ‘Isolation’, ‘Passover’, ‘Colony’, ‘A Means to an End’, ‘Heart and Soul’, ‘Twenty Four Hours’, ‘The Eternal’, ‘Decades’.
18 July 1980
Free giveaway flexidisc (Factory Records FAC 28) released. Produced by Martin Hannett. Initial pressing: 10,000 copies. Track list: ‘Komakino’, ‘Incubation’, ‘As You Said’.
“For a while there had been talk of making Closer a double album but we dropped that plan because we all hated the idea of a double. This did mean that we couldn’t put the other three tracks on the album, so we came up with what we thought was a compromise: releasing a flexidisc with the album. You’d buy the album and get the flexidisc free. But the record stores didn’t like that and decided to sell the flexidiscs – they didn’t get the giveaway idea. So when you bought the album they’d say, ‘Yeah, you can buy the flexidisc as well to go with it: 50p,’ or whatever, the rotten devils. Our intention was to give them all away.”
2 September 1980
‘Atmosphere’/’She’s Lost Control’ (Factory Records FACUS2/UK) twelve-inch single released. Produced by Martin Hannett. Sleeve photography by Charles Meecham. Typography by Peter Saville.
8 October 1981
Still (Factory Records FACT 40) 2 x twelve-inch LP released. The final Joy Division album, a double LP comprising songs by the band never readily available and some formally unreleased; it also includes a live recording of their final concert. Produced by Martin Hannett. Engineered by Chris Nagle. Sleeve design by Peter Saville. First 5,000 with collectors’ hessian cloth cover. Track list: ‘Exercise One’ (Unknown Pleasures session), ‘Ice Age’ (Oct/Nov 1979, Cargo Studios), ‘The Sound of Music’ (Love Will Tear Us Apart’ Session 1), ‘Glass’ (Factory sample), ‘The Only Mistake’ (Unknown Pleasures session), ‘Walked in Line’ (Unknown Pleasures session), ‘The Kill’ (Unknown Pleasures session), ‘Something Must Break’ (‘Transmission’session), ‘Dead Souls’ (from ‘Licht und Bleinheit’/Sordide Sentimentale session), ‘Sister Ray’, ‘Ceremony’, ‘Shadowplay’, ‘Means to an End’, ‘Passover’, ‘New Dawn Fades’, ‘Transmission’, ‘Disorder’, ‘Isolation’, ‘Decades’, ‘Digital’. Track 10 recorded live at the Moonlight Club, London, 2 April 1980. Tracks 11–20 recorded live at Birmingham University, 2 May 1980.
‘I bought this Joy Division bootleg the other day, and the strange thing was, the first track on it was recorded at TJM practice studios, ‘Shadowplay’. I know for a fact we didn’t even own a tape recorder, so I don’t know how anybody else can have recorded it. When I listened, it wasn’t from there, so I took it back and the bloke knocked me a fiver off it because the track list was wrong.’
Peter Hook interview with Jon Savage, April 1994
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Much love and thanks to my beautiful wife, Rebecca, and my beautiful children, Heather, Jack and Jess. I could not have done it without your love, patience and understanding.
In memoriam, rest in peace . . . Jean Jackson, Derrick Jackson, Dave Dee, Rex Sargeant, Larry Cassidy, Mia Hook, Martin Rushent and New Order.
Special thanks to . . . Andrew Holmes and David Sultan. Their hard work in making this book the very best it could be was fantastic. I am in your debt, boys . . . forever.
Thanks, in no par ticular order, to . . . Twinny, Terr y Mason, Claude Flowers, Lesley Thorne, and all at Aitken, Alexander & Co., Phil Murphy, James Masters (for being a fountain of knowledge) Kelvin Briggs, Mike Jones, Emily Husain and all at Simon & Schuster, Mike and Carol Georgieff-Jones. The people of Manchester and Salford, Alan Erasmus, Aaron Mellor and all at The Factory, Anthony Addis and all at OJK & Co, Stephen Lea, Mike Hall at IPS Law. THE LIGHT . . . Jack Bates, Nathan Wason, Andy Poole and Paul (the Bear) Kehoe. Stephen Jones. Pete and Peasy @ Oxygen Management, Steve Strange at X-Ray Agency. The Mighty Sarge. Debbie and Natalie Curtis. The Buzzcocks. Alison Bell, Amanda Dunlop. Dr Hew Jones. Kate King at JMC Office Services. Joanne and all at the Alderley Edge Hotel. Spellcheck, JoyDiv.org. Chris and To m Hewitt. John Brierley. My brothers, Chris and Paul Hook, and their families. Dianne Bourne and the Manchester Evening News. OZ PA. Dave Pils and Jasmine. All at Factory Records. Phil Saxe. Matt Greenhalgh and Anton Corbijn. Electro-Harmonix, Shergold Guitars, Crown Amps, Alembic. AMS Digital Delay, Michael Winterbottom and all the 24 Hour Party People. Kevin Hewick. Peter Saville and Alice Cowling. Paul Fletcher at One Love Music. Warner Brothers Music. Universal Publishing. The Sex Pistols. Roger Eagle. Jean-Jacques Burnel for the sound. Paul Simonon for the strap length. Cockney Rebel for turning me on to music. David Essex and Ringo Starr. The list is endless . . .
INDEX
(page numbers in italic type indicate illustrations)
A Certain Ratio (ACR), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19
A Different Kind of Tension, ref1, ref2
Abraham Moss Centre, ref1
Academy, ref1
Accelerator, ref1
Acklam Hall, London, ref1
Acton, Irene (Peter’s mum), see Hook, Irene
Adam and the Ants, ref1
Adverts, ref1, ref2
Aherne, Caroline (Peter’s ex-wife), ref1
Ajanta Theatre, Derby, ref1, ref2
Albrecht, Bernard, see Sumner, Bernard
Amnesty International Benefit, ref1
An Ideal for Living, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
12-inch version of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
bootleg versions of, ref1, ref2
Ian finances, ref1, ref2, ref3
‘Anarchy in the UK’, ref1
Anderson, John, ref1, ref2, ref3
Angelic Upstarts, ref1
Anti-Nazi League, ref1
Apollo Theatre, Manchester, ref1
Armed Force, ref1
Arrow Studios, ref1, ref2, ref3
‘As You Said’, ref1, ref2
Assembly Rooms, Derby, ref1
Astoria, Edinburgh, ref1
‘At a Later Date’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Atkins, Martyn, ref1
Atkinson-Wood, Helen, ref1
‘Atmosphere’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21
Atomic Kitten, ref1
‘Atrocity Exhibition’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24
‘Autosuggestion’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Back to Zero, ref1
Band on the Wall, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Banger, Ed, ref1
Banks, Chas, ref1
Barlow, Sue, see Sumner, Sue
Bates, Iris (Peter’s ex-partner), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Battle of the Bands, ref1
Beatles, ref1
Bendow, Ian, ref1
Benson, Baz, ref1
Best, George, ref1
Bez (dancer), ref1
Bicycle Thieves, ref1
Bidet Boys, ref1
Big Alex, ref1
Big in Japan, ref1
Binnick, Bernie, ref1
‘BL’, ref1
Blackadder, ref1
Blitz Club, London, ref1
‘Blue Monday’, ref1, ref2, ref3
Blurt, ref1, ref2
Bono, ref1
Bontee, Yves von, ref1
Boon, Richard, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Booth, Dave, ref1, ref2
bootlegging, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Bowdon Vale Youth Club, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Bowie, David, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Boys in Bondage, ref1, ref2
Bradley, Mick, ref1
Brandwood, Derek, ref1, ref2
Branson, Richard, ref1
Braune, Rüdiger, ref1
Brierley, John, ref1, ref2, ref3
Brierley, Peter, ref1
Britannia Row Studios, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Brotherdale, Steve, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
now at McDonald’s, ref1
Brunel University, Uxbridge, ref1
Burnel, Jean-Jacques, ref1, ref2
Burroughs, William, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Butlin’s, ref1, ref2
Buzzcocks, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26
bad behaviour of, ref1, ref2
Joy Division tour with, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
perform in shower of maggots, ref1
Cabaret Voltaire, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
Caffery, John, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Cain, Dave, ref1
Cale, John, ref1
Can, ref1
‘Candidate’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Candy (Ian’s dog), ref1, ref2
Captain (A&R guy), ref1
Cargo Studios, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Casey, Jayne, ref1
Cassidy, Larry, ref1, ref2
Cassidy, Vinny, ref1
Caulfield, Mike (‘Corky’), ref1
Central Sound Studios, ref1, ref2
‘Ceremony’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
‘Chance’, ref1, ref2, ref3
Check Inn, Altrincham, ref1
Cheesehead (guitarist), ref1
Chelsea, ref1, ref2
City Fun, ref1, ref2
Clapton, Eric, ref1
Clarke, John Cooper, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Clarke, Margi (‘Margox’), ref1
Clash, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Closer, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
double album mooted, ref1
Ian’s death and, ref1
no promotion of, ref1
re-mastered, ref1
recording of, ref1, ref2
released, ref1
Coach House, Huddersfield, ref1, ref2
Cockney Rebel, ref1, ref2
Coleman, Jaz, ref1
‘Colony’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18
Colquhoun, Andy, ref1
Control, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Coogan, Steve, ref1
Cook, Paul, ref1
Cope, Julian, ref1
Corbijn, Anton, ref1, ref2
Cornwell, Hugh, ref1
Coronation Street (‘Corrie’), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Cosgrove Hall Films, ref1
Crawling Chaos, ref1, ref2
‘Cries & Whispers’, ref1
Crispy Ambulance, ref1, ref2, ref3
Cummins, Kevin, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Cup Cake (teacher), ref1
Curbs, ref1
Cure, ref1, ref2, ref3
Curtis, Carole (Ian’s sister), ref1
Curtis, Deborah (née Woodruff) (‘Debbie’), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14
birth of, ref1
book written by, ref1, ref2, ref3
daughter’s birth and, ref1, ref2
divorce proceedings initiated by, ref1, ref2, ref3
Ian’s affair and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Ian’s attempted suicide and, ref1
Ian’s death and, ref1
Ian’s epilepsy and, ref1
Ian marries, ref1, ref2
Ian’s suicide and, ref1
pregnancy of, ref1
Curtis, Doreen (Ian’s mother), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Curtis, Ian, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18
alcohol and, ref1
allergies suffered by, ref1
Annik’s affair with, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17
attempts suicide, ref1, ref2
band tensions and, ref1, ref2
band worried about, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bernard hypnotizes, ref1
biopic of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
birth of, ref1
at Burroughs signing, ref1
chameleon-like nature of, ref1
commits suicide, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
death of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
‘death march’ of, ref1
Debbie initiates divorce proceedings against, ref1, ref2, ref3
Debbie marries, ref1, ref2, ref3
domestic problems of, ref1
education of, ref1
epilepsy suffered by, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20
famous mac of, ref1
first EP financed by, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
funeral of, ref1, ref2, ref3
girls/girlfriends and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
guitar mastered by, ref1
ill health of, ref1
inquest into death of, ref1, ref2
jobs taken by, ref1, ref2
joins band, ref1
joins Warsaw, ref1
Martin’s creative relationship with, ref1, ref2
musical tastes of, ref1
nature of, ref1, ref2
Nazi associations dog, ref1
NME cover of, ref1, ref2
Peter first meets, ref1
Peter praises, ref1
piles suffered by, ref1
RCA deal and, ref1
reading habits of, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
references Sinatra in lyrics, ref1, ref2
runaway drum and, ref1
‘Rusty’ sobriquet of, ref1
Sam Riley plays, ref1
self-harming by, ref1, ref2, ref3
Sinatra lyrical references by, ref1
songs written/produced by, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
taken to hospital, ref1, ref2
tortured soul of, ref1, ref2
‘US tour’ and, ref1
worrying side of, ref1, ref2
WWII obsession of, ref1
Curtis, Kevin (Ian’s father), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Curtis, Natalie (Ian’s daughter), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
birth of, ref1
Ian misses birthday of, ref1
songs written/produced by, ref1
Damned, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Davidson, Tony, ref1
Davy, Gareth, ref1
/> ‘Day of the Lords’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17
De La Salle Grammar School, ref1
‘Dead Souls’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20
Dean, James, ref1
Deano (friend), ref1, ref2
‘Decades’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Deep Purple, ref1, ref2
DeMac, Harry, ref1
Den Byrds, ref1
Devoto, Howard, ref1, ref2
Dexys Midnight Runners, ref1, ref2
Dickin, Bernard (‘Barney’) (later Bernard Sumner), ref1, ref2, ref3; see also Sumner, Bernard
‘Digital’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27
‘Disorder’, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30
Distractions, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Dominic (fan), ref1
Doors, ref1, ref2
Dowie, John, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
‘Dreams Never End’, ref1, ref2
Drones, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Durutti Column, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
Dury, Ian, ref1, ref2
Dust, ref1
Duval, Michel, ref1
Eagle, Roger, ref1, ref2, ref3
Earcom 2, ref1
Eater, ref1
Echo & the Bunnymen, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Ed (OZ PA), ref1
Eden, Ibiza, ref1
Eden, Kevin, ref1
Eden Studios, ref1, ref2, ref3
E.G. Records, ref1
Electric Ballroom, London, ref1, ref2
Electric Circus, Manchester, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14