S1E8: Blue Monday

Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division & New Order

Rhino UK

Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Music, Factory Records, Music History, Joy Division, Documentary, Stephen Morris, Society & Culture, Peter Hook, New Order, Ian Curtis

4.8 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

New Order and Maxine Peake are joined by The Pet Shop Boys and Honey Dijon to tell the story of the best-selling, most groundbreaking and arguably greatest 12 inch single of all time. Series finale!

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0:00.0	Nothing would have stopped us. Nothing did stop us, did it?
0:03.1	For over four decades, they've only ever moved forward.
0:06.8	There was nothing to go back to, there was no plan B.
0:09.1	Through tragedy after tragedy and a complete reinvention.
0:13.4	I think I brought calmness.
0:15.5	It was like, everyone wants to come and see the band that used to be Joy Division.
0:18.9	Nobody.
0:19.7	They've never really stopped to take a breath until now.
0:24.7	You were happy not being a normal group.
0:27.9	This is Transmissions, the definitive story of New Order and Joy Division.
0:42.7	March 1983, New Order released this song.
0:47.4	A record which changed everything.
0:50.9	It was just an idea waiting to happen, really.
0:53.3	We got there first.
0:57.0	Created by pushing the technology to its limits.
1:01.9	It was a bit of a science project really as well as songwriting and that's why it sounded so good.
1:04.8	It drew on a huge range of disparate influences.
1:11.6	This was really gay dance music and we thought, how can these Mancunian heterosexuals know about this?
1:15.7	And set the clubs alight and if we're honest still does.
1:19.7	We probably became a hit because of DJs, club DJs playing it.
1:23.4	It just caught fire.
1:24.8	I'm just thinking, how can anybody dance do this?
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