New Order release Blue Monday

7 March 1983: Number 12 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance music"How does it feel, to treat me like you do?" Bernard Sumner's deadpan vocal introduced what was to become the biggest-selling 12-inch of all time. Did it really start as a test-pattern for the band's new Oberheim DMX? Did they just write it so they'd have a song they could use as an encore while they walked off stage? The video for the follow-up single, Confusion, makes it clear just how much they were influe...

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