Joy Division's Ian Curtis commits suicide

18 May 1980: Number 22 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicIan was very ill with epilepsy when we were recording the Closer album. He was having a lot of blackouts. There was one horrible occasion where he was missing for two hours in the studio. I went in the toilet and there he was spark out on the floor – he'd had a fit and split his head open on the sink. There were a lot of occasions like that. While Closer was done pretty quickly after Unknown Pleasures, som...

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