Fact #62001
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Short story:
The Stranglers headline The Rainbow, London, England, UK, Europe. During the set by support band Joy Division, their singer Ian Curtis suffers an epileptic fit.
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Peter Hook (Joy Division) : For him to get up there, suffering from epilepsy, perform like that, be exposed, must have been absolutely awful. I think we were to blame for rail-roading him into doing it. He was in a no-win situation. He didn’t want to let us down, he didn’t want to let himself down. And yet he was making himself ill.
Bernard Sumner (Joy Division) : He started dancing, but he didn’t stop at the end of the song. We were trying to stop the song and he was dancing faster and faster, went into a spin, span into the drums and knocked the kit over. We realised he was having a fit, and we had to carry him offstage. By the time got him to the dressing room he’d come out of it, and he just broke down in tears. He was so ashamed. We didn’t know what to say or what to do.
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Bernard Sumner (Joy Division) : He started dancing, but he didn’t stop at the end of the song. We were trying to stop the song and he was dancing faster and faster, went into a spin, span into the drums and knocked the kit over. We realised he was having a fit, and we had to carry him offstage. By the time got him to the dressing room he’d come out of it, and he just broke down in tears. He was so ashamed. We didn’t know what to say or what to do.
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