Ian Curtis was a genius. Ian Curtis committed suicide on May 18, 1980. Ian Curtis simply found life too much too take.
Heroes are hard to find.
Many would argue that Ian Curtis doesn't deserve such celebrated company or the picture history has come to paint of this lonely, isolated man who lived as much in his dreams as he did anywhere else. One of the ten great songs of the past 20 years since punk first kicked out the jams that had descended on music after the creative watershed of the '60s and early '70s. And it's all about to be re-embraced, rewritten, reinvented and revised. Sometime in November, Joy Division will live and breathe their unknown pleasures again with the release of a four-CD box set featuring previously unreleased studio tracks and live performances. Will Tear Us Apart and Transmission plus rare live recordings from 1979 and 1980.