Two of the most influential bands in music history.

It was uniquely different than anything I had heard.

Being an innovator of new sounds, new rhythms, daring is important.

One incredible tale.

We were just doing whatever we wanted whenever came into our heads,

taking everything that we could take.

It was a bit like being a surfer who's just caught a wave.

And you're like, whoa, well, this is fun.

What's going to happen when the wave is the beach though?

This is Transmissions, the definitive story of Joy Division and New Order.

Coming up on episode 4, it's back to the studio for some family bonding.

Brotherhood was a marked change in how Barney saw the group and how I saw the group.

But something's different this time and tensions threaten to boil over.

You don't want a bruise in other musicians' ego, especially if you're in the same van with him.

Hotel room, the van to the gig, the van to the airport, on the plane with him.

That kind of bruise fers and the bitterness comes out.

On album four, it's all about brotherhood. No irony intended.

There's only so much time you can spend working together because it's like you're not only working.

We used to live in a flat together.

And if you did that for 24 hours for like 10 years, I think you would get sick of each other.

In April of 1986, New Order once again prepared to make a new album.

But the atmosphere was different from the harmonious high point of low life.

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