Ian never hid his interest for stars who had died young. Deborah writes of a young Ian who was already thinking towards death: Originally published in 1995, the biography/memoir is written in first person-narrative as Deborah recounts Ian’s early life, her own troubled relationship with Ian, and Ian’s last days. As the wife of the late Ian Curtis, Deborah Curtis provides a highly personal, at times painful, view of Ian and his band. Over a decade after Joy Division’s career, Deborah Curtis wrote Touching From a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division. And, whether Interpol enjoys the comparison or not, some of us like to believe that Paul Banks’ voice is the closest we will ever come to hearing Ian Curtis again, and we love that. Now, artists like Radiohead, U2, Bloc Party, the Cure, The Killers, The Drums, and many others cite Joy Division and New Order as influences on their work. The remaining members of Joy Division – Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, and Bernard Sumner – went on to form New Order and added more electronic elements to the new wave scene. Blending elements of punk and melancholic sounds, Joy Division helped create the genre of new wave. Few bands can claim the type of unique artistic influence that Joy Division continues to inspire even past frontman Ian Curtis’ death in 1980.
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