Peter Hook on his biggest Ian Curtis regret and what Curtis would think of Joy Division’s Rock Hall induction: ‘I must go and see him … Maybe I’ll tell you what he says.’
“I think he’d be over the bloody moon,” says legendary bassist Peter Hook, when asked how late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis would react to Joy Division/New Order’s induction into...
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Peter Hook on unarchiving Ian Curtis’s vinyl copy of Iggy Pop’s ‘The Idiot’: ‘To hold that record in my hands was the strangest feeling I’ve had in a long time’
Former Joy Division/New Order member Peter Hook is chatting me with from his home in England about his fall 2024 tour with Peter Hook and the Light, during which he’ll...
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Peter Hook on How New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ Lost $100K and What Might Have Been if Joy Division’s Ian Curtis Had Lived
New Order’s 1983 synth classic “Blue Monday” is one of the most important and beloved songs of the new wave era. The nine-minute alt-dance opus influenced and inspired everyone from...
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