Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook – review

Andy Beckett on a raw, surprising account of the classic post-punk bandOf all the great doomed rock bands, with their mayfly lives and drawn-out, highly profitable after-lives, few have a legend as potent and precisely defined as Joy Division. They played their first concert in January 1978 and their last in May 1980. In that time they released two albums and a few other songs: a pop music close to unique in its icy, addictive bleakness. They wore stark, photogenic clothes and haunted the hollow...

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