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Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician. He was best known as the lead singer, lyricist and occasional guitarist of the Goth band Joy Division, with whom he released the albums Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Closer (1980).
Nov 16, 2009 · Ian Curtis of Joy Division dies by suicide. On May 18, 1980, Ian Curtis, lead singer and lyricist of the British group Joy Division, hangs himself in his Cheshire kitchen. He was only 23 years...
May 21, 2022 · It has been 42 years since Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the legendary post-punk rock band Joy Division, took his own life. After battling epilepsy and depression, Curtis died on...
Jun 7, 2024 · On May 18, 1980, the day before their band Joy Division were due to fly out to the United States for their first American tour, Ian Curtis and Bernard Summer had planned to go water-skiing in Blackpoo.
Joy Division were an English post-punk band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Ian Curtis, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris . Sumner and Hook formed the band after attending a June 1976 Sex Pistols concert.
May 17, 2024 · On the anniversary of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis’ death in 1980, bandmates, friends and family help to unravel the story of an artist torn apart by love, epilepsy and duty.
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May 18, 2010 · Thirty years ago today, the music world lost one of its most unique and powerful young voices when Ian Curtis, lead singer and songwriter of Joy Division, committed suicide just hours before...
Ian Curtis, at the age of 23, on the brink of international stardom, had hanged himself from the clothes rack. The memorial stone of the Joy Division singer – a replacement for the original ...
Ian Curtis (1956 to 1980) A short biography of Ian Curtis. Ian Kevin Curtis was born in Manchester on the 15th July 1956, the son of Kevin and Doreen Curtis. The Curtis family then lived at Hurdsfield, just outside Macclesfield, where Ian attended the local primary school.
May 18, 2015 · With his brooding lyrics and distinctive voice, Ian Curtis (1956 – 1980) was an essential part of Joy Division as they moved beyond punk and helped establish the Manchester scene in the late...
