Inspired
by the Sex Pistols' first Northern England date at Manchester's Lesser Free
Trade Hall on June 4, 1976, Bernard Sumner and Peter
Hook formed Joy Division with
Ian Curtis joined also by Steven Morris. For a year or so, they were Manchester scene
outcasts. By 1980, Joy Division
were England's hottest group, famous for the intensity of each
performance and the power of their songs. Their dark persona
wasn't how they were offstage, but this persona was sealed in myth
with Ian Curtis' suicide in May, 1980.
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