An indie label releases Blue Monday, the biggest selling 12-inch single ever

March 1983: Number 27 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicBlue Monday had inauspicious beginnings: depending on which of New Order's myth-puncturing stories you believe, it was written either to test out a new drum machine or in order to have a piece of music that would in effect play itself live, allowing the encore-shy band to leave the stage early. But whatever the reason, it was a defining point in their career. For some time they had been inching away from Joy Di...

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