As the 40th anniversary of the passing of lead singer Ian Curtis approaches on May 18, the music of British post-punk legends Joy Division has grown in popularity. The band's songs are ...

A few months into 1980, the British post-punk group Joy Division were ready to take the next steps in their promising career. Led by their compelling lead singer Ian Curtis, the emerging quartet ...

Then, after Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis died in 1980, Hook and the two other surviving band members — guitarist Bernard Sumner and drummer Stephen Morris — went on to form the equally ...

The eventual tragic suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis in 1980 ... It’s impossible to overstate how influential Joy Division was on popular music, particularly their first album, Unknown Pleasures.

Peter Hook, the bassist for seminal British rock band Joy Division and its successor New Order, has an unusually vivid memory of his first visit to Atlanta on June 17, 1983. And it remains ...

After the tragic death of Joy Division’s lead singer, Ian Curtis, in 1980, Hook and bandmates Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris reformed as New Order. Hook played bass for New Order until 2007 ...

Another chimed in with: "Took me forever to realise that Joy Division/New Order were the same band, less the lead singer. Totally different sounds." A third also commented: "A lot of New Wave acts ...

Then, after Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis died in 1980, Hook and the two other bandmates — guitarist Bernard Sumner and drummer Stephen Morris — went on to form the vastly influential ...

Along with bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris, the early years of his artistic career remain inextricably linked to that of Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division, who committed ...

On this day (Jan. 25) in 1978, Joy ... Division came on stage,” author Mark Johnson detailed in his book, An Ideal For Living. “He tried to plead with them, saying, ‘But I’m the lead ...