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Joy Division: Piece by Piece

Writing About Joy Division 1977-2007

By Paul Morley

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| Paperback | 9780859654043

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Paul Morley knew Joy Division intimately. He not only wrote extensively and evocatively of the “mood, atmosphere and ephemeral terror” that enveloped the group and their doomed front man, Ian Curtis, but he was present when Curtis suffered his life-changing epileptic seizure following a Continue

Paul Morley knew Joy Division intimately. He not only wrote extensively and evocatively of the “mood, atmosphere and ephemeral terror” that enveloped the group and their doomed front man, Ian Curtis, but he was present when Curtis suffered his life-changing epileptic seizure following a London concert in April 1980 and was the only journalist permitted to view Curtis’ corpse. Joy Division: Piece By Piece encompasses his complete writings on the group, both contemporary and retrospective. In addition to collecting all of Morley’s classic works about the band, the book includes his eloquent Ian Curtis obituary and hindsight pieces on the group’s significance, framed by an extensive retrospective essay, as well as his reviews of the films 24 Hour Party People and Control. Morley, who emerged from Manchester at the same time as Joy Division, effortlessly evokes that city’s zeitgeist and psycho-geography to tell the story of this uniquely intense group.

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  • Before he lost control

    Joy Division Piece by Piece: Writing About Joy Division 1977-2007, by Paul Morley (Plexus £14.99, pp384) Juvenes: The Joy Division Photographs of Kevin Cummins (To Hell With Publishing £200, pp192) As the unexpected success of Control, Anton Corbijn' ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Let Joy be unconfined

    In 1980, the Manchester pop impresario, Tony Wilson, showed Paul Morley the dead body of Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division, who had hanged himself. Wilson hoped that Morley would one day write the definitive account of the band and Curtis’s ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 384 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0859654044
  • ISBN-13: 9780859654043
  • Publisher: Plexus Publishing
  • Pub date: Dec 10, 2007
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