joy division from the archives

by markdivision2

A lot has been said about Joy Division, but not so much by the band themselves. Online music mag the quietus has a philosophy of only covering releases from the last 30 years (“We chose a completely spurious Year Zero of 1974 because that’s when Kraftwerk released ‘Autobahn’ as a single. It seemed to us the birth of modern music”) and has unearthed this gem of an interview from NME in 1979. Observers of the most recent Hooky v The Others drama can only wonder what might’ve been.

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