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Composed 45 years ago

Handwritten lyrics to "Love Will Tear Us Apart", written by Ian Curtis in August 1979

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Japan - Quiet Life "JAPAN releases the LP "Quiet Life" on Hansa Records in England. Tracks on the new album are "Fall In Love With Me," "Desperate," "In-Vogue," "Halloween," "Alien," "The Other Side Of Life," and the title track "Quiet Life." There is also a cover of the Velvet Underground song "All Tomorrow's Parties." The LP marks the change in Japan as a guitar-glam band, to more of an electronic funk inspired group. Reviewing the Lp, Sounds magazine said, "You never know quite what to expect with Japan. In a seemingly ceaseless quest for success, their short career has to date spanned at least four markedly different musical styles. And yet somehow, despite the often calculated, contrived nature of these moves, the band have never become victims of the changes..... While I'm unsure that Japan will ever become a 'major act' (this despite the 'big in '80' predictions currently being bandied about) 'Quiet Life' is already an album of the year. And this with the current 12 months barely four days old. Believe it." - Post-Punk Diary, George Gimarc . #Japan #QuietLife #OnThisDay #MusicHistory #PostPunk #OnThisDay #OnThisDayInMusicHistory #PostPunkHistory #Glam #GlamRock #January4 #January41980 #1980 #80s #80sMusic #1001Albums #1001AlbumsYouMustHearBeforeYouDie #440 #PostPunkDiary #PostPunkChronicles #NewRomantic #DavidSylvian #RichardBarbieri #RobDean #MickKarn #StevenJansen #SimonBell #AllTomorrowsParties #MusicJournalism #JSimpson https://www.instagram.com/p/CJpmhepIRr2/?igshid=1pxbi7ngfzlif

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Walk in silence. 📺 #Repost @historyofpunk (@get_repost) ・・・ In memory of Ian Curtis, who suffered from both epilepsy and depression, took his life on May 18, 1980, on the eve of Joy Division's first North American tour, and just before the release of their second album . . . #postpunk #postpunkmusic #postpunklegends #joydivision #iancurtis #lovewilltearusapart #history #postpunkhistory #yyj #musicwelove #musichistory #legend (at Victoria, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxm-r2yD5ZA/?igshid=5c48dsntjnk7

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47 years ago today

Warsaw (later renamed Joy Division) debut at the Electric Circus, 29 May 77, supporting Buzzcocks & Penetration

📸 Kevin Cummins

The flyer and adverts mistakenly called the band Stiff Kittens. They never used this name

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65th birthday today

Happy Birthday Robert Smith, lead guitarist of Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1982 to 1984 and continuous member of post-punk band The Cure since 1978, born on this day in 1959 in Black Pool, UK

📸 Tom Sheehan

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44 years ago today

Ian Curtis with Joy Division at The New Osborne Club, Manchester, February 7, 1980. Photo by Daniel Meadows

#punk #punkrock #postpunk #postpunkmusic #joydivision #iancurtis #history #postpunkhistory #otd

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44 years ago today

Ian Curtis of Joy Division at Lataren Club in Rotterdam on January 16, 1980.

Photo by Rob Verhorst.

#postpunk #punkrock #iancurtis #joydivision #history #postpunkhistory #otd

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44 years ago - what a magical evening

Joy Division and Killing Joke at the Lyceum, London, February 29, 1980.

Photos by Frank Jenkinson

#punk #punkrock #postpunk #postpunkmusic #postpunklegends #joydivision #killingjoke #history #postpunkhistory

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39 years ago today

Meat Is Murder is the second studio album by English post punk band the Smiths, released on this day in 1985.

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45 years ago today

English post-punk band Joy Division (Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris), photographed in Hulme, Manchester, January 6, 1979.

Photos by Kevin Cummins

#punk #postpunk #postpunkmusic #joydivision #iancurtis #history #postpunkhistory #otd

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44 years ago

Ian Curtis and Joy Division recording "Love Will Tear Us Apart Again" - Januar 1980

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44 years ago today

Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by English post punk band Joy Division, released on this day in 1979 by Factory Records.

#punk #punkrock #postpunk #unknownpleasures #joydivision #history #postpunkhistory #otd

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43 years ago today

Killing Joke is the debut studio album by English postpunk band Killing Joke, released on this day in 1980, featuring the singles 'Wardance', 'Change' and 'Requiem'.

#punk #punks #punkrock #postpunk #killingjoke #history #postpunkhistory #otd

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44 years ago today

Ian Curtis of Joy Division at The World's First Science Fiction Music Festival, Queen’s Hall, Leeds, September 8, 1979.

Photos by Kevin Cummins

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Remembering the great Ian Kevin Curtis, musician, lead singer and lyricist of the post-punk band Joy Division, born on this day in 1956, Stretford, Lancashire, England

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