![]() ![]() This solemn version of the Joy Division story has endured for decades, periodically reinforced by authoritative accounts such as Touching From a Distance, a claustrophobic 1995 memoir by Curtis's widow Deborah Control, an acclaimed 2007 band biopic, shot in reverential black and white and directed by onetime Joy Division photographer Anton Corbijn and finally, by all the musicians who have drawn from Joy Division's seemingly inexhaustible well of young male angst and moody looks and riffs. 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. 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. ![]()
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