![]() ![]() The two kept a lid on their mutual antagonism through Joy Division. ![]() Possibly further, if Hook’s memoirs are to be believed. As with many great rock ’n roll relationships, their love-hate affair – with the emphasis mostly on the hate – goes back decades, all the way to Joy Division. Why so? The answer lies in the long-running enmity between Hook and Sumner. So it’s very much a commemoration of two halves. ![]() Eight hours later, guitarist Bernard Sumner and drummer Stephen Morris will be interviewed live by journalist Dave Haslam, with bonus contributions from The Killers’s Brandon Flowers, a lifelong fan of Joy Division and the group’s post-Curtis incarnation of New Order. From midday, Joy Division bassist Peter Hook is streaming a 2015 concert in which he and his band, The Light, delved into highlights from Joy Division’s baroque back-catalogue. They won’t all be doing so together, however. They will perform Joy Division songs, including the heart-piercing anthem Love Will Tear Us Apart, and speak about Curtis and his legacy. Forty years later, the anniversary of the tragic passing of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis is being commemorated by his former bandmates. In the early hours of May 18, 1980, in a red-brick terrace house on Barton Street in Macclesfield, a 23 year-old former civil servant with a sensible haircut and haunted eyes hanged himself. ![]()
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