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The first EP, The Peel Sessions, was released in 1986 by record label Strange Fruit. It features recordings made for John Peel's show broadcast on 14 February 1979, and was recorded at the BBC Studios in Maida Vale, London, England on 31 January 1979. [2] None of the songs had been released prior to the broadcast.
Warsaw was the planned debut album by the English post-punk band Joy Division, while they were briefly associated with RCA Records.Recorded in May 1978, it comprised eleven tracks now known collectively as the "RCA Sessions".
Joy Division have influenced many bands, including their contemporaries the Cure and U2. [106] In 1980, U2 singer Bono said that Joy Division were "one of the most important bands of the last four or five years". [107] Joy Division was an influence on Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, [108] and on Tears for Fears. [109]
Joy Division were an English post-punk band that consisted of singer Ian Curtis, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.From 1976 to 1980, the band recorded a total of 53 songs, all of which were credited to all four members of the group, with one exception, and almost all were produced by Martin Hannett.
FabricLive.07 is a DJ mix compilation album by John Peel, as part of the FabricLive Mix Series. Track listing. No. Title ... (featuring Joy Division) 3:17: 20.
Warsaw performed on the second night; three months later they changed their name to Joy Division, which is how they are credited on the sleeve. [7] The album was the debut release for the Fall; Joy Division had self-released their debut 7-inch EP An Ideal for Living just 13 days earlier, and all the other bands had released debuts in 1977.
It was released in 2000. The album was re-released as "Before and After – The BBC Sessions" in 2004, the Joy Division tracks included were the same, but it also contained a New Order album. The entire track listing of the album was later released as the second disc in the UK edition of The Best of Joy Division in 2008.
Strange Fruit closed in 2004. It was part of the Zomba Group of companies and was shut down when the label merged with BMG. The last release the label put together was an album of New Order's complete Peel Sessions, fitting as the first release that came out was an EP of New Order's first Peel session. Six months later John Peel died.