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Cemetery and chapel Gates and lodge, also listed Ian Curtis's grave marker. Macclesfield Cemetery, is a Victorian cemetery located on Prestbury Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. It was opened on 17 May 1866 and consists of 68 acres (28 ha) of land including gardens of remembrance, cemetery walks take place three times a year. [1]
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).
Musically, Movement is a transitional album. References to Ian Curtis appear on the song "ICB" (an initialism for 'Ian Curtis Buried', as confirmed by Peter Hook in a 2013 interview) [5] Keith Gwyllim of Stylus Magazine described it: "Most of Movement is filled with droning post-punk dirges shot through with veins of electro-pop and primitive dub-sounding experiments.
Ian Curtis's grave marker, laid in 2008 to replace a similarly inscribed one stolen earlier that year. The song was named NME Single of the Year in 1980, [28] and was listed as the best single of all time by NME in 2002.
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As many of you have likely heard, actor Tony Curtis passed away in his home last week at the age of 85, due to cardiac arrest. Curtis was best known for his lead roles in movies such as Some Like ...
Keith Farley of AllMusic wrote that with the album, "the group dropped much of the bleak dance-punk of early material in place of what sounds like a shallow attempt to seize the baton dropped by gloom giants Joy Division after the death of Ian Curtis", calling the record "a bit too mired in its own misery to make an impression on listeners."