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Joy Division
Named after the wing of concentration camps in which women were forced to prostitute themselves for Nazi officers, Joy Division were never likely to see optimism and warmth within human nature. In just three years they gave the world post-punk (where bands took the raw aesthetic of punk and married it with a greater musical innovation), one of music's most iconic frontmen, whose epilepsy contributed to the single most magnetic stage presence ever, and two of the starkest, troubling and strangely euphoric albums in 1979's 'Unknown Pleasures' and 1980's 'Closer'. The latter was sadly released a few months after Ian Curtis killed himself on May 18th 1980. The rest of the band quickly re-grouped as New Order, keeping the myth of Joy Division preserved forever.SESSIONS
- 31/01/1979 (Maida Vale 4)
- 26/11/1979 (Maida Vale 4)
FESTIVE 50 TRACKS
- Atmosphere (Number 2 in 1980)
- Atmosphere (Number 1 in 1981)
- Atmosphere (Number 2 in 1982-Alltime)
- Atmosphere (Number 1 in Millennium)
- Dead Souls (Number 64 in 1980)
- Dead Souls (Number 11 in 1981)
- Dead Souls (Number 12 in 1982-Alltime)
- Decades (Number 14 in 1980)
- Decades (Number 7 in 1981)
- Decades (Number 7 in 1982-Alltime)
- Isolation (Number 44 in 1981)
- Isolation (Number 38 in 1982-Alltime)
- Love Will Tear Us Apart (Number 3 in 1980)
- Love Will Tear Us Apart (Number 3 in 1981)
- Love Will Tear Us Apart (Number 3 in 1982-Alltime)
- Love Will Tear Us Apart (Number 3 in Millennium)
- New Dawn Fades (Number 20 in 1980)
- New Dawn Fades (Number 5 in 1981)
- New Dawn Fades (Number 4 in 1982-Alltime)
- New Dawn Fades (Number 15 in Millennium)
- She's Lost Control (Number 22 in 1980)
- She's Lost Control (Number 51 in 1981)
- She's Lost Control (Number 41 in 1982-Alltime)
- She's Lost Control (Number 20 in Millennium)
- Transmission (Number 10 in 1980)
- Transmission (Number 14 in 1981)
- Transmission (Number 26 in 1982-Alltime)
- Transmission (Number 28 in Millennium)
- Twenty-Four Hours (Number 41 in 1980)
- Twenty-Four Hours (Number 43 in 1981)
- Twenty-Four Hours (Number 23 in 1982-Alltime)
