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Fact #93288

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Short story:

Ian Curtis, singer and songwriter with Joy Division, hangs himself in his Manchester, UK, home. In 1985, New Order, the band formed from the ashes of Joy Division, will record an instrumental, Elegia, inspired by and dedicated to Curtis. In 1999, the American post-hardcore band Thursday will release a song titled Ian Curtis on their debut album, Waiting.

Full article:

Peter Hook (Joy Division) : I was the first of the group to be told. I was just about to sit down and have my dinner and the phone rang. ‘I’m Sgt so and so, and I’m sorry to inform you that Ian Curtis committed suicide last night.’ I went back in, sat down and had my dinner. I didn’t say anything for about an hour. Shock. It was such a huge thing to cope with. I don’t think you ever really come to terms with it.

Bermard Sumner (Joy Division) : It was the breakdown of his relationship, accentuated by the amount of barbiturates he was taking to subdue his epilepsy. Barbiturates makes you so you’re laughing one minute, crying the next. He’d had a physical breakdown, a relationship breakdown, which caused an emotional breakdown.

Rob Gretton (manager, Joy Division) : The way they described Ian dying was so far from the way I perceived it, that it’s not worth getting annoyed about. There was no great depression, no hint at all. The week before, we went and bought all these new clothes. He was really happy. A lot of his problems were personal. We could advise him, but we couldn’t do anything about it.
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