Spring 1980 was a busy time for Joy Division. The band, who’d played its first gig in Manchester, under the name Warsaw, ...

One of music's most mythologized figures would have celebrated his 70th birthday today, and that is the legendary Ian Curtis of Joy Division. Curtis was maybe the single most influential musician in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I think he'd be over the bloody moon," legendary bassist Peter Hook tells Gold Derby, when asked how late Joy Division frontman ...

A PLAY play about Ian Curtis, troubled frontman of Joy Division, was always going to be bleak. What I wasn’t expecting was ...

Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap It feels like we've finally arrived at a time when the dreaded music biopic can be good again. Films like Better Man and A Complete ...

On May 18, 1980, 23-year-old Ian Curtis tragically took his own life. The singer of the English post-punk band Joy Division was found dead by his estranged wife, Deborah, with Iggy Pop's album The ...

“Play it high, Hooky,” suggested Ian Curtis to his Joy Division bandmate, Peter Hook. That advice is one of the most game-changing moments in music history, along with Edward Van Halen ditching the ...

Discover the dark, urgent sound of Joy Division, the British band whose short career shaped punk, goth, and modern music loved by young listeners everywhere. Joy Division's music hits hard even ...

Patrick Marber was inspired by the bleakness of Joy Division's final album 'Closer' when he was writing the play 'Closer', which was also a Mike Nichols movie.

In the months after releasing their debut album 'Unknown Pleasures', the Mancunian Joy Division chose an unorthodox way of making and promoting a new single.