Se cumplen tres décadas de la muerte del cantante. El líder de Joy Division marcó a toda una generación. Su legado fueron sus canciones oscuras e introspectivas.
-- Parte del público estaba asustado. Sobre el escenario, aquel joven se convulsionaba de manera extraña. Daba miedo. Tenía la mirada perdida, y agitaba los brazos nerviosamente al ritmo de la música.
In the front rows, a small group chanted the actions of neo-Nazis, believing wrongly that the name of the group, an allusion to the halls of prostitutes in the concentration camps, was a clear indication of his Nazi ideology. Nothing is further from the truth.
Joy Division was a strange group. Among his many quirks was the fascination with Nazi aesthetics, something shared with many bands of the era, they found it a provocation. The seventies drew to a close, and the ephemeral phenomenon punk screamed an interior renovation, a breath of fresh air. And the strange young man and his band were willing to put their grain of sand.
A troubled soul
Some may think that had something to pose in the attitude of Ian on stage. If true, that only address one part of reality: Curtis suffered from epilepsy, a disease that had reinforced the introspective nature and whose symptoms were the main inspiration for the way you dance. Such was his delivery, his usual fainting were often confused with the show.
Born in Manchester on July 15, 1956, Kevin Ian Curtis had shown very young innate qualities for poetry. Not surprisingly, his talent earned her a scholarship at the prestigious The King's School, where he failed miserably.
He decided to focus its efforts in music, shaping compositions that distill a romantic pessimism, a dark halo reflecting an undisguised interior suffering. Curtis was a troubled soul, fragile and unstable. And as such, seemed destined to die young and tragically.
post-punk pioneers
same destination, sometimes enclosing singular paradox: Joy Division was born out of a concert by the Sex Pistols . In 1976, when they were still totally unknown to the general public, which later became the quintessential punk band played in Manchester before a small group of fans. There were
Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner and Ian himself, who soon join Warsaw, the band decided to form after seeing that concert. Warsaw, renamed Joy Division shortly thereafter, became a hole in the local scene thanks to an unprecedented sound that made its limitation, its main virtue.
Unlike most groups rock, in Joy Division was under the weight of carrying the melody, supported by a hypnotic rhythmic base, while the guitar went into the background. Above the rest, the profound and unsettling baritone Ian drew soundscapes full of literary references.
Joy Division had a mysterious magnetism, painful and truthful. Tony Wilson, founder of The Factory label and key character called Madchester sound, signed the band to release his debut album, Unknown Pleasures. The album won the second place in the British indie charts. That opened the door to a second disc that eventually would become the posthumous work Ian.
Torn by love
Curtis's fascination with death had been increasing over time. His stormy marriage to Deborah Curtis, with whom he had married at age 19, his affair with Annik Honoré Belgian and his disastrous work as a parent led to a personal crisis that led him to withdraw into himself and his own lyrics.
Closer Shortly before the band's second album, saw the light, and when Joy Division was about to embark on a U.S. tour, Curtis hanged himself in the kitchen of his home in Manchester. In his turntable spinning The Idiot, more introspective album Iggy Pop His remains were buried under the epitaph Love Will Tear Us Apart (Love will tear us apart), the title of their most popular song and the summary of his short tragic life. He was 23.
icon, also on the big screen
The singular life of Ian Curtis has been an inspiration for the film. Based on Touching From a Distance, a biography that wrote the icon to be his wife, Deborah Curtis, Anton Corbijn filmed in 2007 Control, a biopic starring Sam Riley, who bears a stunning resemblance to the musician.
The film picked up many accolades from critics and received the award for Best European Film Festival in Cannes. Other filmmakers, like Grant Gee, chose to portray the life of Curtis in documentary form. Joy Division (2007) reconstructs the life of the singer through the statements of relatives and close friends, helping to shape a story for a lot more faithful to the figure of myth.
Moreover, captured in Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People essential to the vibrancy of the Manchester scene in the late seventies and early eighties, where Joy Division played a key role.
His legacy
- Unknown pleasures. 1979. The debut album by Joy Division showed on the cover of 100 successive pulses of the first pulsar discovered. Magnetic served as reference to get a perfect idea of \u200b\u200bwhat their sound appealing: songs as primary and absolutely heartbreaking, executed with an obvious technical limitation that was more than offset based on passion.
Disorder She's Lost Control or give a good account of it. Beyond the indie charts, sales were poor, but over time would be vindicated as one of the most influential debut albums of all time.
- Closer. 1980. Although the launch of the second work of Joy Division was scheduled for May 1980, the suicide of Curtis made to postpone until July of that year. Thus, the leader of Joy Division did not live to see the success of Love will tear us apart, single that appeared in the first edition of an album more austere and claustrophobic than its predecessor.
A masterpiece of dark, foreboding cover funeral and that put an end to the band and served as a link between punk and new wave, the survivors of Joy Division would be major players with his new band, New Order.
-- Parte del público estaba asustado. Sobre el escenario, aquel joven se convulsionaba de manera extraña. Daba miedo. Tenía la mirada perdida, y agitaba los brazos nerviosamente al ritmo de la música.
In the front rows, a small group chanted the actions of neo-Nazis, believing wrongly that the name of the group, an allusion to the halls of prostitutes in the concentration camps, was a clear indication of his Nazi ideology. Nothing is further from the truth.
Joy Division was a strange group. Among his many quirks was the fascination with Nazi aesthetics, something shared with many bands of the era, they found it a provocation. The seventies drew to a close, and the ephemeral phenomenon punk screamed an interior renovation, a breath of fresh air. And the strange young man and his band were willing to put their grain of sand.
A troubled soul
Some may think that had something to pose in the attitude of Ian on stage. If true, that only address one part of reality: Curtis suffered from epilepsy, a disease that had reinforced the introspective nature and whose symptoms were the main inspiration for the way you dance. Such was his delivery, his usual fainting were often confused with the show.
Born in Manchester on July 15, 1956, Kevin Ian Curtis had shown very young innate qualities for poetry. Not surprisingly, his talent earned her a scholarship at the prestigious The King's School, where he failed miserably.
He decided to focus its efforts in music, shaping compositions that distill a romantic pessimism, a dark halo reflecting an undisguised interior suffering. Curtis was a troubled soul, fragile and unstable. And as such, seemed destined to die young and tragically.
post-punk pioneers
same destination, sometimes enclosing singular paradox: Joy Division was born out of a concert by the Sex Pistols . In 1976, when they were still totally unknown to the general public, which later became the quintessential punk band played in Manchester before a small group of fans. There were
Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner and Ian himself, who soon join Warsaw, the band decided to form after seeing that concert. Warsaw, renamed Joy Division shortly thereafter, became a hole in the local scene thanks to an unprecedented sound that made its limitation, its main virtue.
Unlike most groups rock, in Joy Division was under the weight of carrying the melody, supported by a hypnotic rhythmic base, while the guitar went into the background. Above the rest, the profound and unsettling baritone Ian drew soundscapes full of literary references.
Joy Division had a mysterious magnetism, painful and truthful. Tony Wilson, founder of The Factory label and key character called Madchester sound, signed the band to release his debut album, Unknown Pleasures. The album won the second place in the British indie charts. That opened the door to a second disc that eventually would become the posthumous work Ian.
Torn by love
Curtis's fascination with death had been increasing over time. His stormy marriage to Deborah Curtis, with whom he had married at age 19, his affair with Annik Honoré Belgian and his disastrous work as a parent led to a personal crisis that led him to withdraw into himself and his own lyrics.
Closer Shortly before the band's second album, saw the light, and when Joy Division was about to embark on a U.S. tour, Curtis hanged himself in the kitchen of his home in Manchester. In his turntable spinning The Idiot, more introspective album Iggy Pop His remains were buried under the epitaph Love Will Tear Us Apart (Love will tear us apart), the title of their most popular song and the summary of his short tragic life. He was 23.
icon, also on the big screen
The singular life of Ian Curtis has been an inspiration for the film. Based on Touching From a Distance, a biography that wrote the icon to be his wife, Deborah Curtis, Anton Corbijn filmed in 2007 Control, a biopic starring Sam Riley, who bears a stunning resemblance to the musician.
The film picked up many accolades from critics and received the award for Best European Film Festival in Cannes. Other filmmakers, like Grant Gee, chose to portray the life of Curtis in documentary form. Joy Division (2007) reconstructs the life of the singer through the statements of relatives and close friends, helping to shape a story for a lot more faithful to the figure of myth.
Moreover, captured in Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People essential to the vibrancy of the Manchester scene in the late seventies and early eighties, where Joy Division played a key role.
His legacy
- Unknown pleasures. 1979. The debut album by Joy Division showed on the cover of 100 successive pulses of the first pulsar discovered. Magnetic served as reference to get a perfect idea of \u200b\u200bwhat their sound appealing: songs as primary and absolutely heartbreaking, executed with an obvious technical limitation that was more than offset based on passion.
Disorder She's Lost Control or give a good account of it. Beyond the indie charts, sales were poor, but over time would be vindicated as one of the most influential debut albums of all time.
- Closer. 1980. Although the launch of the second work of Joy Division was scheduled for May 1980, the suicide of Curtis made to postpone until July of that year. Thus, the leader of Joy Division did not live to see the success of Love will tear us apart, single that appeared in the first edition of an album more austere and claustrophobic than its predecessor.
A masterpiece of dark, foreboding cover funeral and that put an end to the band and served as a link between punk and new wave, the survivors of Joy Division would be major players with his new band, New Order.
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