{"title":"Joy Division","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"unknown-pleasures-inside-joy-division","title":"Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoy Division changed the face of music. The sound of music. The meaning of music. Godfathers of the current alternative scene, they reinvented rock in the post-punk era, creating a new sound - dark, hypnotic, intense that would influence U2, Morrissey, R.E.M., Radiohead and many others. The band's image, once subversive and alienating, has become an internationally renowned 'look' well documented by photographers Anton Corbijn, Kevin Cummins and graphic designer Peter Saville.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by the attitude, energy and sound of Punk, particularly the Sex Pistols, Peter Hook and his old school friend Bernard Sumner started a band which continues to influence popular music 35 years later, uniting with a gifted lead-singer and lyricist, Ian Curtis, and a brilliant drummer, Stephen Morris. With some cobbled together instruments and a clapped out old van, four young lads from Manchester and Salford shared the same vision and created their own unique sound in pubs and clubs first across the north-west, then across the whole of Britain, until in 1980 they had released two albums and were on the cusp of touring America. Then Ian Curtis committed suicide leaving everyone around him bereft. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his frank, no-holds-barred style, Peter 'Hooky' Hook gives us the inside story of life with Joy Division. He talks with eye-opening candour and reflection about the suicide of Ian Curtis: often seen as the \"intellectual one\", to Peter and the band he was just \"one of the lads\" and the burden of balancing his epilepsy and the demands of his domestic life only really emerged when it was too late. He covers the band's friendships and fall-outs; their rehearsals and recording sessions; and the larger-than-life characters who formed a vital part of the Joy Division legend: Tony Wilson, Rob Gretton, Martin Hannett, and more. An intimate account of Joy Division that is perfect for die-hard fans.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e'Hook has restored a flesh-and-blood rawness to what was becoming a standard tale. 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The book not only \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edocuments the history of a now iconic and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eera-defining group, but also focuses for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efirst time on the history of the photographs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethemselves, how and when they were printed, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehow Cummins composed what he calls his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eportraits, and how they were used.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCummins, as a young, aspiring photographer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efrom Manchester, had unique access to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe band in their very early days, from their \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eprevious incarnation as Warsaw to after \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elan Curtis's death when they evolved into \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew Order. 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