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BRITs 25 Song Award
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

Recorded a mere two months before lead singer Ian Curtis committed suicide but released a month after his death, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is the sound of despair in musical form.

Joy Division's masterpiece reached number thirteen in the UK charts in 1980, and in a final, fitting tribute, Curtis's tombstone was inscribed with the title as his epitaph.

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