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July 16, 2001

Joy Division Box Hits U.S.

Four-disc "Heartandsoul" due August 7th
March 23, 2001

Ian Curtis Biopic a Go

NYC production company to shoot film about late Joy Division singer

Substance 1977-1980

In Life, Joy Division Singer Ian Curtis was only one of thousands of young Britons whose lives were transformed by punk, who found in the music's corrosive simplicity an ideal vehicle for self-expression and instant physical release. But the brooding intensity of Curtis's lyrics and the strange powe...

1988 RS: Not Rated

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1980

Unknown Pleasures

1979

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Until the death of singer Ian Curtis in 1980, Joy Division was one of Britain's most admired and promising postpunk bands. New Order built on that promise, with 1983's "Blue Monday" forging an influential alliance of new wave and dance music.

Joy Division's Velvet Underground-derived drone and Curtis' matter-of-fact, gloomy lyrics scored significant club hits with "She's Lost Control," "Transmiss...

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