The fullness of Joy Division in their concerts

Joy Division can be for many the best post-punk band of all time thanks to the talent of Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris. They invented that new sound. Formed in 1976 in Salford, Manchester, they managed to revolutionize music with their songs and melodies depressive, desperate and full of melancholy and poetry before the misery of life and the world.

Thanks to Tony Wilson and his label Factory Records they recorded their first and only disc as a band: "Unknown Pleasures". After Curtis' death in 1980 they posthumously launched "Closer". "Ian created a wonderful testimonial about how he felt at the time: apprehensive, fearful, but powerful," Hook commented on 'Closer', Joy Division's second and final album.

On May 18, 37 years of the unexpected suicide of Ian Curtis. The singer and leader of the band, suffered from depressive attacks, epilepsy and agorafibia. During live performances he suffered several attacks of epilepsy while singing, which forced to suspend the concert and to leave a climate of uncertainty in the future of the band.

To remind this band, we leave you several videos of their live performances.

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