Arts > Music > Punk > UK > Ian Kevin Curtis   1956-1980

Ian Curtis performing live

in Rotterdam, 16 January 1980.

Photograph: Rob Verhorst/Redferns

‘Ian Curtis wanted to make extreme music, no half measures’

Forty years after Joy Division’s seminal debut album,

Jon Savage’s oral history, extracted below, sheds new

light on the band and the city that shaped them

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Sun 24 Mar 2019    09.30 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/24/
joy-division-this-searing-light-extract-ian-curtis-jon-savage

Brief but incendiary career … Curtis in 1979.

Photograph: Paul Slattery/Retna UK

 Ian Curtis: ‘His lyrics were so dark’

A never-before-seen cache

of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis’s writing

is being released by his widow, Deborah.

She tells Jenny Stevens

why he wanted to be an author – as well as a rock star

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Sunday 12 October 2014        22.18 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/12/
ian-curtis-so-this-is-permanence-joy-division

Ian Curtis and Deborah Woodruff

on their wedding day, 23 August 1975.

Photograph:

Ian Curtis Collection/Avalon Photoshot

‘Ian Curtis wanted to make extreme music,

no half measures’

Forty years after Joy Division’s

seminal debut album,

Jon Savage’s

oral history, extracted below,

sheds new  light on the band

and the city that shaped them

G

Sun 24 Mar 2019        09.30 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/24/
joy-division-this-searing-light-extract-ian-curtis-jon-savage

Joy Division

Ian Kevin Curtis    1956-1980

https://www.theguardian.com/music/joydivision

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/24/
joy-division-this-searing-light-extract-ian-curtis-jon-savage

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jun/23/
joy-division-kevin-cummins-photograph-august-1979

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/21/
joy-division-fan-plans-museum-after-buying-former-home-of-ian-curtis

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/21/
touching-from-a-distance-deborah-curtis-ian-joy-division-review

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/12/ian-curtis-so-this-is-permanence-joy-division

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/oct/06/bernard-sumner-chapter-and-verse-new-order

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/may/18/ian-curtis

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2010/may/18/unknown-pleasures-ian-curtis

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/17/ian-curtis-joy-division-wak

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/sep/22/periodandhistorical 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/may/18/musicnews.music 

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/aug/31/popandrock.joydivision 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4545719.stm - 18 May 2005

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