All the trio needed now was a vocalist and they placed an ad looking for a singer in a local Manchester virgin records shop. And the pair would team up with drummer Terry Mason who was also at the Pistols show that night. And the day following the performance, Hook borrowed £35 from his mother to buy a bass guitar while Sumner bought a guitar. It was that pivotal moment in the trio’s lives that made them want to take up music. Unbeknownst to the pair was that their future bandmate Ian Curtis was also in the audience that night. In the Summer of 1976, the Sex Pistols were on tour and they played in Manchester where Hook, and Sumner were in attendance. So, you’re maybe asking, what was the other important event that happened? If it hadn’t been for this chance meeting and another important event in Curtis life, Joy Division may have never formed. He would befriend future Joy Divison members, guitarist/keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook, who were childhood friends.
While working at a dead end job and being married, Curtis began to follow the punk scene in manchester while at the same time meeting others who shared his passion for music. He would long for a day where he would become a rockstar. While he was dealing with depression he found a glimmer of hope in his life with music, as he was soon inspired by David Bowie, The Velvet Underground and the Stooges. Now Curtis had struggled with depression for a long time as at the age of 16 he had to get his stomach pumped after overdosing on prescribed medication used to treat a variety of ailments. “Our existence had become boring and the fact that we both hated our jobs didn’t help I became very depressed and and sometimes I was unable to stifle the tears on the longīus journey home and we had mistakenly saddled ourselves with a mortgage and stability we weren’t ready for and we were still only 19 years old and Ian’s ideas of a musical career didn’t really seem that extravagant at all so that really gave us something to look forward to” she’d say His wife Deborah Woodruff described their pre-joy division years as “boring and a depressing existence that was somewhat offset by her husband’s musical dreams revealing Prior to the band’s formation, frontman Ian Curtis was practically a kid, It was 1975 and he was 19 years old and lived anything but a rockstar life working for the government and was married. It’s members held down day jobs for several years while playing shows, and during the recording of their final studio record Closer, after they had quit their jobs, they were living on almost $70 per week. Joy Division was a band with a bright future, but they never really experienced the fruits of their labor during their four short years together. The band had a short lived career only being active between 19 Bernard Sumner’s biography, described the band by saying “Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and at times, bleak.” The band was made up of Vocalist Ian Curtis, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris. Joy Division was a post-punk band first inspired by the Sex Pistols that formed in 1976 in Manchester, England. Today’s story is about the life and death of Joy Division’s frontman Ian Curtis. Don’t forget to hit the bell notification icon to be notified every time i put out a new video on my channel.
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