Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, lyricist and occasional guitarist of the band Joy Division, with whom he released the albums Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Closer (1980). He was noted for his on-stage behaviour and dancing style influenced by his experiences with epilepsy, as well as his dark …

Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Ian Curtis, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.. Sumner and Hook formed the band after attending a June 1976 Sex Pistols concert. While Joy Division's first recordings were heavily influenced by early punk …

May 21, 2022 · 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.

Jun 7, 2024 · On May 18, 1980, the day before their band Joy Division were due to fly out to the United States for their first American tour, Ian Curtis and Bernard Summer had planned to go water-skiing in Blackpool with friends from another band, Section 25. When Curtis didn't show up at their arranged meeting spot in Macclesfield at the appointed time, Sumner travelled up to …

Nov 16, 2009 · On May 18, 1980, Ian Curtis, lead singer and lyricist of the British group Joy Division, hangs himself in his Cheshire kitchen. He was only 23 years old. Joy Division was one of four hugely ...

May 17, 2024 · Ian Curtis – beneath his unassuming Northern front – was a gifted poet and original thinker, clearly battling a debilitating illness and the stresses of a messy personal life. Within weeks of his death, Love Will Tear Us Apart, one of Joy Division’s last recordings, reached Number 13 in the chart. Its sorrowful melody and haunting lyrics ...

On the morning of May 18, 1980 — well before daybreak — Ian Curtis died by suicide, one day before the groundbreaking band he fronted — English post-punk pioneers Joy Division—was ...

Jul 15, 2021 · Ian Curtis and Joy Division’s work exudes this same enduring quality, which ensures that it continues to burrow into the wider consciousness. In recent times, the singer has inspired everything from Anton Corbijn’s award-winning 2007 biopic, Control , through to selection by artist Peter Blake as one of the British icons to appear in a 2012 ...

May 18, 2010 · Thirty years ago today, the music world lost one of its most unique and powerful young voices when Ian Curtis, lead singer and songwriter of Joy Division, committed suicide just hours before the ...

Ian Curtis: The Voice of a Generation, Lost Too Soon. In the gritty landscape of late 1970s England, amidst the rise of post-punk music and social upheaval, Ian Curtis emerged not just as a singer-songwriter but as a haunting figure whose art echoed the anxieties and disillusionments of his time. He was born in 1956 in Stretford, Greater ...