Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook – review

This memoir by the Joy Division bassist is steeped in guiltIt is 16 October 1979. Manchester quartet Joy Division have just played a show in Brussels and are a few days away from recording Atmosphere, the sepulchral masterpiece that will take on uncanny weight seven months later, when the body of 23-year-old singer Ian Curtis is found hanging in his kitchen. On this particular night, however, Curtis is urinating in an ashtray in his bandmates' youth hostel room. "Ha, you wankers, I'm pissing in ...

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