My teenage obsession with Ian Curtis

Growing up in Macclesfield in the early 80s, I attended the same school as the late Joy Division singer. But my passion for their music soon became an infatuationMacclesfield, 1980, a few months after Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division, had killed himself, and I was walking to the record shop after school, the same school Curtis (and drummer, Stephen Morris) attended a few years earlier. Having just moved to the Manchester suburbs from rural East Anglia as an 11-year old, I was feeling ...

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