'24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning.
From Peter Hook
Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.
A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.
I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.
Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful.
I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.
'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is very simply written.
The thing with Joy Division's music is that each member was playing like a separate line. We hardly ever played together; we all played separately. But when you put it together, it was like the ingredients in a cake.
To be in one band that changed the world musically is pretty good, but to be in two bands that changed the world musically, that's amazing.
I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of.
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