Joy Division: Piece By Piece: Writing About Joy Division 1977–2007 PDF
Preview Joy Division: Piece By Piece: Writing About Joy Division 1977–2007
esp 003 Contents Title Page PART ONE: Before/Life I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI XXVII XXVIII XXIX XXX XXXI XXXII XXXIII XXXIV XXXV PART TWO: After/Life XXXVI XXXVII XXXVIII XXXIX XL XLI XLII XLIII XLIV XLV XLVI XLVII XLVIII XLIX L LI LII LIII LIV LV LVI LVII LVIII LIX LX LXI LXII LXIII LXIV LXV PART THREE: Future/Life LXVI LXVII LXVIII LXIX LXX ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR Copyright PART ONE: Before/Life I Once or twice in the pages that follow I step back for a moment and think about the implications of what I am doing. II Notes for a narration by the author/for a BBC 6Music radio retrospective of Joy Division broadcast in May 2005 – the 25th anniversary of Ian Curtis’ death. It has taken 25 years for the story of Joy Division to travel from the dark underground into the commercial light. 25 years for Joy Division to go from rumour, from obscurity, from the ordinary streets where they lived, to being officially named as one of the greatest rock groups of all time – they were influenced by the very best things to be influenced by – the Stooges, the Velvets, Roxy – and they have influenced all the very best things since – Depeche, U2, Nirvana, Radiohead – and no serious modern group can escape their shadow. No group that wants to do something original and special using guitars, bass, drums, voice and studio can avoid the sound and vision, the sound and fury, the sound and beauty, the sound and space, the sound and time, the sound and delay, the sound and Manchester of Joy Division. It was 25 years ago that the frantic story of Joy Division came crashing to a shocking stop, and 25 years since the story slowly began. A group, two years old, that was on the go, full of go, forward, always moving into the future, broke up into pieces. Going, going, gone. Eventually, compilations and repackagings and anniversaries and films and memories and books and the enduring strength of their songs would put these pieces back together again. Joy Division have been put back together by time, and something that at the time seemed wasted and wrecked is now remembered with words like these … 25 years ago the Joy Division singer Ian Curtis committed suicide two months shy of his 24th birthday.
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