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Author | : Deborah Curtis |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2014-10-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0571322417 |
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The only in-depth biographical account of the legendary lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow. Includes a foreword by Jon Savage and an introduction by Joy Division drummer, Steven Morris. Revered by his peers and idolized by his fans, Ian Curtis left behind a legacy rich in artistic genius. Mesmerizing on stage but introverted and prone to desperate mood swings in his private life, Curtis died by his own hand on 18 May 1980. Touching from a Distance documents how, with a wife, child and impending international fame, Curtis was seduced by the glory of an early grave. Regarded as the essential book on the essential icon of the post-punk era, Touching from a Distance includes a full set of Curtis's lyrics and a discography and gig list.
Author | : Ian Curtis |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2015-02-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1452146500 |
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A treasure trove of personal writings by the great post-punk singer-songwriter—with a foreword by his wife Deborah and an introduction by Jon Savage. So This Is Permanence presents the lyrics and personal notebooks of one of the most enigmatic and influential music artists of the late twentieth century, Joy Division’s Ian Curtis. The fact of the band’s relatively few releases belies the power and enduring fascination its music holds, especially in light of Curtis’s tragic suicide in 1980 on the eve of the band’s first American tour. This volume features Curtis’s never-before-seen handwritten lyrics, accompanied by earlier drafts and previously unpublished pages from his notebooks that shed fascinating light on his writing and creative process. Also included are an insightful and moving foreword by Curtis’s widow Deborah, a substantial introduction by writer Jon Savage, and an appendix featuring books from Curtis’s library and a selection of fanzine interviews, letters, and other ephemera from his estate.
Author | : Peter Hook |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2013-01-29 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0062222589 |
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In Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook, bassist for the legendary, groundbreaking band Joy Division, takes readers backstage with the group that helped define the sound of a generation and influenced artists such as U2, Radiohead, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Unlike other books about Joy Division, Factory Records, or lead singer Ian Curtis—who took his own life just before the band's first U.S. Tour—Unknown Pleasures tells Joy Division's story from the unique perspective of one of the three surviving band members. Told with surprising humor and vivid detail, Unknown Pleasures is the book Joy Division fans have been waiting for.
Author | : Bernard Sumner |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1466889888 |
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Bernard Sumner pioneered the post-punk movement when he broke onto the scene as a founding member of Joy Division, and later as the front man of New Order. Heavily influencing U2 and The Cure while paving the way for post-punk revivalists like Interpol, Sumner's has left an indelible mark on punk and rock music that endures to this day. Famously reluctant to speak out, for the first time Sumner tell his story, a vivid and illuminating account of his childhood in Manchester, the early days of Joy Division, and the bands subsequent critical and popular successes. Sumner recounts Ian Curtis' tragic death on the eve of the band's first American tour, the formation of breakout band New Order, and his own first-hand account of the ecstasy and the agony of the 1970s Manchester music scene. Witty, fascinating and surprisingly moving, Chapter and Verse is an account of insights and spectacular personal revelations, including an appendix containing a complete transcript of a recording made of Ian Curtis experiencing hypnotic regression under the Sumner's amateur guidance and tensions between himself and former band member Peter Hook.
Author | : Kevin Cummins |
Publisher | : Cassell |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2021-10-14 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1788403258 |
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*** The definitive collection of the Joy Division photographs of Kevin Cummins, including interviews with Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris. A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEAR "Lovers of Joy Division, revel in Juvenes! Dazzling... Glorious..." LOUDER THAN WAR The iconic images captured by Cummins - from snowy bridges and dark rehearsal rooms to electrifying live performances - helped to define Joy Division and cement their place in music history. Originally published in an ultra-limited run of just 226 copies, Juvenes is a book with legendary status. Now comprehensively updated with new material and images that have never been published in a book before, this new edition will allow fans to own it for the first time. Also containing insightful and moving essays from the band's family, contemporaries and fans including David Peace and Pat Nevin, Juvenes is a striking, poignant celebration of a truly special band. With a foreword by Ian Rankin. "Whenever I picture Joy Division, it's through Kevin Cummins' camera lens. Never before or since has one photographer captured a band's story so well." TIM BURGESS "I first saw Kevin Cummins' photographs of Joy Division when I was a music-obsessed teenager. The stark black and white shots captured perfectly the austere and serious nature of the music. Look at this book and dream a new future into being. God knows we need one." BOBBY GILLESPIE
Author | : Claude Flowers |
Publisher | : Omnibus Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2012-02-22 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0857127608 |
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Formed from the erosion of Joy Division after the suicide of Ian Curtis, New Order were early pioneers of the synthesizer in dance music, coupled with deep bass lines. This book details the start of Factory Records and New Order's connections with Manchester's Hacienda Club, of which they were part owners. Also examined is the demise of Factory, the band's signing to Phonogram and the solo careers of Peter Hook, Barney Sumner, Julian Gilbert and Steve Morris.
Author | : Jon Savage |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2019-04-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0571345387 |
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The SUNDAY TIMES Top Ten Bestseller#1 Book of the Year, UNCUT#1 Book of the Year, ROUGH TRADEBook of the Year, MOJOOver the course of two albums and some legendary gigs, Joy Division became the most successful and exciting underground band of their generation. Then, on the brink of a tour to America, Ian Curtis took his own life.In This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else, Jon Savage has assembled three decades' worth of interviews with the principal players in the Joy Division story to create an intimate, candid and definitive account of the band. It is the story of how a group of young men can galvanise a generation of fans, artists and musicians with four chords and three-and-a-half minutes of music. And it is the story of how illness and inner demons can rob the world of a shamanic lead singer and visionary lyricist.
Author | : Rebecca Abrams |
Publisher | : Pan |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2008-06-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 174328375X |
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Dr Alexander Gordon is a passionate and ambitious young obstetrician who is living in the wealthy city of Aberdeen in the 18th century. Since the birth of their first child, his wife has retreated into herself. Gordon, so adept in dealing with the woes and trials of the women he cares for, is unable to do the same for the woman he loves most. He is determined to discover why so many women, easily delivered of healthy babies, then die unexpectedly. As his research moves on, he finds he needs more practical evidence for his theories, and it is here that he finds himself ostracised by his peers. For Gordon thinks he has discovered the cause of the deaths: it is puerperal disease - childbirth fever. If Gordon can make his discovery both accepted and understood, hundreds of lives will be saved...
Author | : Mick Middles |
Publisher | : Omnibus Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Rock music |
ISBN | : 9781847725080 |
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"Mick Middles was the first journalist to interview Joy Division for the music press and formed a close association with the band. Lindsay Reade was a co-founder of Factory Records along with her then-husband Tony Wilson. Together they have revisited the legend of Ian Curtis and produced the first full-length account of this troubled man's life, work and relationships in the midst of the unique explosion of pop energy that hit Manchester in the late Seventies"--Cover.
Author | : Simon Reynolds |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2006-02-17 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1101201053 |
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Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance, and style and continued into the early eighties with the video-savvy synth-pop of groups such as Human League, Depeche Mode, and Soft Cell, whose success coincided with the rise of MTV. Full of insight and anecdotes and populated by charismatic characters, Rip It Up and Start Again re-creates the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.