I scoured his manuscripts looking for evidence that it wasn't so," she wrote in 2014 memoir So This Is Permanence: Ian Curtis, Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks (via NME).

Peter Hook: Ian Curtis wasn’t curled up in a ball, head in his hands Joy Division and New Order bassist opens up to Salon about an icon's suicide, and why the band didn't see it coming ...

It has been 42 years since Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the legendary post-punk rock band Joy Division, took his own life. After battling epilepsy and depression, Curtis died on May 18, 1980. He ...

There appears to exist among artists a deep connection between genius and sorrow. Sadly, this seems to have been the case with the late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, who took his own life on May ...

Aitch, Joy Division’s Peter Hook, and Akse P19 have all taken to social media to comment. Captioning photos of his mural before and after being painted over, Akse P19 wrote: So my mural of Ian ...

Ian Curtis Remembered Via His Lyrics. By NME. 18th May 2012. Twitter erupted with tributes today to mark the 32nd anniversary of Joy Division frontman singer Ian Curtis’ death.

“A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth—he was definitely that,” former Joy Division bassist Peter Hook remembered Curtis in his 2012 memoir, also titled Unknown ...

Married at 19, the brightest star of the post-punk scene at 22, dead at 23. The life of Joy Division's Ian Curtis is the stuff of rock mythology – and a much talked-about new film. Here, his ...

The town in Northern England where late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis grew up will host the first ever 'Joy Division Day' next month.. On September 7, Macclesfield in Chesire will celebrate the ...

Though Curtis died tragically at the young age of 23, his life and music continue to resonate 30 years later. As a songwriter, he helped inspire the melancholy post-punk revival of bands like Bloc ...

It has been 42 years since Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the legendary post-punk rock band Joy Division, took his own life. After battling epilepsy and depression, Curtis died on May 18, 1980. He ...