David Bowie sings the Joy Division classic "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

Apparently - "A chance meeting in 1983 had David Bowie, Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook chatting away over beers in the Kings Arms in Salford. "...So we were all there just having a laugh and we joked that he should come n have a jam with us, then next minute - well, it was the next day actually, but i didn't expect he'd definitely come by - and we were in the practice rooms and we were playing Love Will Tear Us Apart and i was like, f%$K we're playing Love Will Tear Us Apart with David Bowie singing, this is crazy. We never released it - Bowie took a recording of it, and just layered some more vocals on for fun, sent it back to me..." - Bernard Sumner. N.B. I do not own the rights to this song - no copyright infringement"

Wow, simply incredible...  Actually literally 'incredible' as this is a fake, a hoax, but a good one!

Spector - All The Sad Young Men

Someone's got a Joy Division CD!

Ian Curtis - 'dance dance dance to the radio'

Joy Division - Transmission 

If you want to understand Ian Curtis and Joy Division then watch the film Closer. Not the crap relationships film starring Jude Law, the one about Ian Curtis directed by Anton Corbijn.

Ian Curtis died 35 years ago today

Joy Division - Atmosphere 

Ian Curtis had a voice that I can hear so easily in my head. Some of Joy Division's music was challenging, some melodic, but all is worth a listen.

Sheer genius from Joy Division

Joy Dicision - Atmosphere

Walk in silence,
Don't walk away, in silence.
See the danger,
Always danger,
Endless talking,
Life rebuilding,
Don't walk away.

Walk in silence,
Don't turn away, in silence.
Your confusion,
My illusion,
Worn like a mask of self-hate,
Confronts and then dies.
Don't walk away.

People like you find it easy,
Naked to see,
Walking on air.
Hunting by the rivers,
Through the streets,
Every corner abandoned too soon,
Set down with due care.
Don't walk away in silence,
Don't walk away.

Time for some Joy Division

I love this track from the first Joy Division album 'Unknown Pleasures'.

For a real insight into Ian Cutis, you must watch the film 'Control', it's seriously moving.

31 years ago today Ian Curtis died

If you read the title of this piece and said "Who?" then you need educating. Ian Curtis was the lead singer and prime lyricist of the post punk band Joy Divison, a group that I loved in the late 1970s and love even more now. If you only know one track then I am willing to bet that it is "Love Will Tear Us Apart", here's that track


And here's a link to the official video - here

And here's a link to a post I made of lots of cover versions of that song. And here's what I wrote last year on the 30th anniversary of Ian Curtis's death.

Meanwhile here's some more Joy Division to get your teeth into:
"She's Lost Control"


"Atmosphere"



if you don't know much about Ian Curtis or Joy Division then I recommend watching Anton Corbijn's film "Control". It's absolutely brilliant and I cry at the end every time I watch it. Here's the trailer...

Love Will Tear Us Apart - 30 years after Ian Curtis's death

I couldn't let the 30th anniversary of Ian Curtis's death go un-remarked upon, I have heard nothing on the BBC today so here's a few covers of my favourite Joy Division song and then two different Ian Curtis versions.


The Cure's odd cover version


New Order's live cover version


Joy Division - The BBC version


Joy Division - the best version


And because I love these songs:

"Isolation"


"She's lost control"


I remember dance, dance, dance, dancing to the radio!