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Control is a 2007 biographical film about the life of Ian Curtis, singer of the late-1970s English post-punk band Joy Division.It is the first feature film directed by Anton Corbijn, who had worked with Joy Division as a photographer.
Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, lyricist and occasional guitarist of the band Joy Division, with whom he released the albums Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Closer (1980).
Joy Division were the first to say: 'We're fucked.' There is a particularly impressive sequence in which dark, despairing tracks of urban alienation and angst from the 1979 album Unknown Pleasures are accompanied by a speeded-up nocturnal journey around Manchester. It has the hallucinatory sci-fi feeling of Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville."
Meanwhile, Joy Division's career progressed, and Curtis appeared on the 13 January 1979 cover of NME. That month the band recorded their session for BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel . According to Deborah Curtis, "Sandwiched in between these two important landmarks was the realisation that Ian's illness was something we would have to learn to accommodate".
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" is a song by English rock band Joy Division, released on June 27, 1980 as a non-album single. Its lyrics were inspired by lead singer Ian Curtis's marital problems and struggles with epilepsy. [7] The single was released the month after his suicide.
Curtis's bandmates carried on as New Order, but forever wondered what might have been and what they could have done. Peter Hook reflects 40 years after suicide of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis ...
Inspired, Wilson starts a weekly series of punk rock shows at a Manchester club, where the newly formed Joy Division perform, led by the erratic, brooding Ian Curtis. [ 3 ] Wilson founds a record label, Factory Records , [ 3 ] and signs Joy Division as the first band; the contract is written in Wilson's blood and gives the Factory artists full ...
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