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Joy Division
In 2019, to mark the 40th anniversary of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, Peter Hook talked to Jonathan Wright about the “wonderful out-of-control excitement” of making one of the best debut…
New Order interview: Power, Corruption & Lies
Power, Corruption & Lies marked the moment when New Order completed the transformation from Joy Division. In 2020, during lockdown, NO members Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert told Classic Pop…
Peter Hook talks Joy Division, New Order
After the tragic death of Ian Curtis, the surviving members of Joy Division, including Peter Hook could have faded into obscurity – instead, 1981 saw them reborn as New Order,…
Making Electronic by Electronic
With Electronic, Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner shook off the shackles of being at the forefront of two of the most significant bands of the 80s and aimed straight for…
Joy Division/New Order story to be told in new podcast
2020 is turning out to be quite a year to be a Joy Division/New Order fan. Not only have we been blessed with a new single and a deluxe reissue…
Issue 55 of Classic Pop magazine is on sale now!
In the latest issue of Classic Pop magazine we have a world exclusive with Adam Ant as he prepares for a full-album tour of his experimental solo debut Friend Or…
Review: NEW ORDER – ∑(NO,12K,LG,17MIF) NEW ORDER + LIAM GILLICK: SO IT GOES…
It’s sobering to realise this souvenir of New Order’s cumbersomely titled collaboration with conceptual artist Liam Gillick is their fourth live collection in less than a decade. Recorded in 2017…
Top 100 Singles of the 80s: 90-86
90 Eurythmics: Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox couldn’t have been a more apt duo to record the 1984 movie soundtrack, having already filmed their Orwellian nightmares for…
Unknown Pleasures – Inside Joy Division
Joy Division’s legendary bassist Peter Hook tells the solemn story of the band in his new autobigraphy Unknown Pleasures – out 1st October. Unknown Pleasures tells the inside story of…