However, both his life-story and the band’s music, characterized by darkly glittering songs that resonated with resplendent tones rather than decandantly world-weary sounds, were powerful enough to earn Joy Division a passionate audience. had been growing steadily.īy the time most people in the United States had started taking note of Joy Division, Ian Curtis was gone. Prior to Curtis’ death, Joy Division was virtually unknown in the United States, even though their following in the U.K. The band made only two albums before Curtis killed himself in 1980, two days before the band was scheduled to leave for its first concert tour in the United States. Touch from a Distance: The Bleak Exhilaration of Ian Curtis and Joy DivisionĪnton Corbijn’s recent bio-documentary, Control, tells the story of Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the revered Manchester post-punk band Joy Division.
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