Bibliograph

This searing light, the sun and everything else, Joy Division : the oral history, Jon Savage

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This searing light, the sun and everything else, Joy Division : the oral history, Jon Savage

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This searing light, the sun and everything else

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Jon Savage

Sub title

Joy Division : the oral history

Summary

Joy Division emerged in the mid-70s at the start of a two-decades long Manchester scene that was to become much mythologised. It was then a city still labouring in the wake of the war and entering a phase of huge social and physical change, and something of this spirit made its way into the DNA of the band. Over the course of two albums, a handful of other seminal releases, and some legendary gigs, Joy Division became the most successful and exciting underground band of their generation. Then, on the brink of a tour to America, Ian Curtis took his own life.In This searing light, the sun and everything else, Jon Savage has assembled three decades worth of interviews with the principle players in the Joy Division story: Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Deborah Curtis, Peter Saville, Tony Wilson, Paul Morley, Alan Hempsall, Lesley Gilbert, Terry Mason, Anik Honore, and many more

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