From the tragedy of Ian Curtiss suicide emerged one of the defining groups of the 80s, combining pop smarts with experimental leanings. Here are 10 crackers
The first New Order single operates as the perfect bridge between their previous incarnation as Joy Division and the future they had to carve out for themselves following the suicide of singer Ian Curtis. In fact, Ceremony is technically a Joy Division song, and an embryonic live version performed at that groups last-ever gig (in Birmingham) appears on the posthumous double album Still. By the time New Order recorded it in March 1981, the song was polished and glistening, Sumners voice, guitars and drums meshing together in a way that suggested the Joy Division chemistry had survived but also changed. You can hear the group rediscovering their confidence after Curtiss suicide. The key lyric Heaven knows, its got to be this time is the sound of optimism born through crisis: the bands delicate crawl from the wreckage into an uncertain new future produces a New Order classic.
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by Dave Simpson via Electronic music | The Guardian
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