Joy Division

Inspired by the Sex Pistols' first Northern England date at Manchester's Lesser Free
Trade Hall on June 4, 1976, Bernard Sumner and PeterHook formed Joy Division with Ian Curtis. For a year or so, they were Manchester scene outcasts. By 1980, Joy Division were England's hottest group, famous for the intensity of each performance and the power of their songs. Their dark persona
wasn't how they were offstage, but this persona was sealed in myth with Ian Curtis' suicide in May, 1980.