18 May 1980
typed for your pleasure on 18 May 2009, at 12.23 am
Hangman looks round as he waits,
Cord stretches tight then it breaks,
Someday we will die in your dreams,
How I wish we were here with you now
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May 28th, 2009 at 2.33 pm
wat?
May 30th, 2009 at 3.04 am
Those would be some of the lyrics to ‘In a lonely place’ by Joy division, and that would be Ian Curtis, the lead singer.
As I consider Joy division to be my favourite band of all time, I do these little tribute posts once a year on the above date, as that’s when Ian committed suicide, due to a number of factors, on the eve of their first tour to the States. The three remaining members inducted a fourth person and renamed themselves New order, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Go rent Grant Gee’s brilliant documentary on Joy division from 2007; you won’t regret it. ‘Control‘ is very good as well, although it’s a fiction based on fact…