S1E4: Love Will Tear Us Apart
Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division & New Order
Rhino UK
4.8 • 802 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Maxine Peake, Bono, Anna Calvi, Thurston Moore and the surviving members of Joy Division describe the band's growing success, the creation of the timeless song 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', and the tragic death of their iconic singer, Ian Curtis.
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| 0:00.0 | Two of the most influential bands in music history. |
| 0:05.0 | Joy Division held this mythology. |
| 0:07.0 | Not knowing the history, young people hear New Order and they love it. |
| 0:12.0 | One incredible tale. |
| 0:14.0 | They're uncompromising, rebellious. |
| 0:16.0 | We push the envelope. |
| 0:17.0 | There's just like that darker undercurrent. |
| 0:19.0 | Just there's nothing like it. |
| 0:20.0 | They sort of changed the world twice. |
| 0:22.5 | This is Transmissions, |
| 0:24.9 | the definitive story of New Order and Joy Division. |
| 0:37.1 | March 1980. |
| 0:40.7 | Burly six months after the release of unknown pleasures |
| 0:44.0 | and after a short UK tour supporting the Buscocks, |
| 0:47.7 | it was time for Joy Division to go back into the studio |
| 0:50.9 | to record a second album titled Closer. |
| 0:59.0 | And to capitalise on the band's growing success and to help evolve their sound, |
| 1:04.7 | a decision was taken to move to the capital and use a recording studio built by Pink Floyd, |
| 1:10.6 | Britannia Rose Studios. |
| 1:12.9 | There was a great excitement about moving to London and staying away from Manchester, |
| 1:17.8 | which was really our first time that we'd recorded like that. |
| 1:22.2 | It was Martin Hannett's idea to go to London. |
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