![]() As Factory Records mastermind Tony Wilson admitted, “I still don’t know where Joy Division came from”. It’s one of the clichés of 60’s music that everyone who bought a copy of the first Velvet Underground album went on to form a group, and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to put ‘Unknown Pleasures’ in the same bracket for the 80’s and beyond. ![]() Take your pick – the moon landings, an assassination or two, the Manson murders, the Woodstock festival, my A-levels… after a while it all starts to blur, these little landmarks scratched in the paintwork of time…īut for once there’s an anniversary that really means something – the 40 th anniversary of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures”. Hey, looks like its anniversary time again. This searing light, the sun and everything else, bu Jon Savage, published by Faber (2019) ![]()
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