Ian Curtis was the leader of a band called `JOY DIVISION`.They never really had a chance to become well known because Ian committed suicide right before their tour in the USA. He was born in Manchester, and died in small town called Macclesfield. I don`t remeber when I started to listen to Joy Division but it was many years ago for sure. They play rather depressing and sad sounds, it`s not for everybody. Their best known song is called `Love Will Tear Us Apart`. As I said before they have never became as popular as they could be. Ian had some problems with health (he suffered from epilepsy) but also he was not able to deal with his life. For ones who want to know him better there is a great movie which shows a little bit of his life called `CONTROL`.
I`ve spend some time in Manchester and also visited Macclesfield a couple of times. It was a really unbelievable experience to walk the same streets as he did, see the school he graduated from.
I visit his grave almost every year. It has words `Love Will Tear Us Apart` written on it which has symbolic meaning but also correspond to Joy Division`s best know song.
I really like to take long walks in Macclesfield, listen to Joy Division. It`s amazing how you can
actually understand how he felt when he was wandering around the same rainy and sad town 40 years ago.
It`s sad that the world never had a chance to get to know them better, but on the other hand I`m glad,
because that way my experience is more unique.
Here you can see a cover of their album `UNKNOWN PLEASURES`. This graphic accually became quite popular and has been put on t-shirt ect. (Although I don`t like when people wear it without knowing the band).
