![]() And in June of last year, the NME “celebrated the 30th anniversary of Joy Division‘s epochal debut Unknown Pleasures”. It’s been covered by artists as diverse as The Cure, U2, Simple Minds, Jamie Cullum and Paul Young. In May 2007, NME placed it at number 19 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever. ![]() The song was also listed by Rolling Stone at number 179 in its top 500 songs of all time. And I’m not alone in my view – in 2002 it was listed by NME magazine as the best single of all time. ![]() It remains one of my most favourite songs of all time. LOVE WILL TEAR US APART was written by Ian Curtis in 1979 and released by Joy Division in 1980. I thought that, as he matured, surely life would be so good that he would not want to leave it all behind”. He seemed terribly young to have already made the decision that life was not worth living. ![]() ![]() “When he told me that he had no intention of living beyond his early twenties, I took it with a pinch of salt, assumed it was a phase and that he would grow out of it. Touching from a Distance – Ian Curtis and Joy Division ![]()
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