![]() ![]() And, already being a fan of New Order (thanks to my sister Stacy who had Substance on LP), one line in the Rolling Stone Album Guide: “Bassist Peter Hook, drummer Steven Morris and guitarist Bernard Sumner founded New Order on the ashes of their previous band, Joy Division.” lead to me reading “Joy Division’s brief recorded legacy towers over the subsequent efforts of its imitators. But clearly there was stuff I was missing. ![]() It would be broken down by its various years with an epigraph for each one and it would begin with that brilliant line from Patti Smith: “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine.” I had Horses and I had Never Mind the Bollocks and Boys Don’t Cry and they were fueling all of it. I had just come back from London and I had the spark of an idea to write a novel about punk. In the spring of 1996 I was getting very serious about music. “Ceremony” – Ian Curtis (music by Curtis / Hook / Morris / Sumner) Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook (2013) ![]()
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