I've noticed a number of peculiar incidents among the members of the student bodies,

all having to do with rock and roll music.

Oh, I'm down, Petcha Bell. Now if you don't think this song is the greatest song ever. I will fight you. 35 years after his death the

legacy of Ian Curtis still looms large. Now we hear the real story from his Joy Division bandmate Peter Hook. I'm Greg Kott.

And I'm Jim Deregatus.

Base player Peter Hook joins us for a candid conversation about the death of his friend

and his feud with the remaining members of New Order.

And later we've got new Inditronica from Passion Pit.

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.

This is Sound Opinions,

and Greg, later in the show we're going to deal with the new album by Passion Pitt whose driving force is Michael Angelicos.

He was on the show in 2012 when the group really started to blow up huge was very

nervous kept saying he didn't even know if he wanted to go through with the

interview finally sat down played some great music for us we had a a wonderful chat. He said afterwards he very

much enjoyed it, but was very frank about his battle with bipolar disorder. Is he in a

better place on this new album? We're going to find later, Jim, but first we've got some music news. I tell myself if you don't mean nothing

What we got got no hold on me here?

I'm what we got got no hold on me

But when you're not there I just crumble

That's a little bit of that retro British soul sound so big in the last year or so.

Paloma Faith, along with Sam Smith and Ed Sheeron,

Greg, they have been helping pop overtake rock

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