“It was great, but it wasn’t enough,” he says. â– â– â– Joy Division performing live in Rotterdam, Bernard Sumner (left) and Ian Curtis. Picture: Rob Verhost/Redferns Then came 1976 ...

While Bernard Sumner was busy being in multiple great acts from Manchester, he had plenty of time to appreciate the greatness of other local acts.

Bernard Sumner on guitar, Peter Hook on bass and Stephen Morris on drums. Joy Division broke up following Curtis's death, ...

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New Order frontman Bernard Sumner, with guitarist Phil Cunningham ... nod to the accusations of crypto-fascism that plagued Joy Division and New Order in their early days). By the time they ...

One of Joy Division’s members – either Stephen Morris or Bernard Sumner – saw Craft’s image and instructed Peter Saville, the designer of Unknown Pleasures’ artwork and packaging, to use it for the ...

Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner started New Order out of Joy Division, following the tragic death of the latter's lead singer Ian Curtis, and helped pioneer the synth-pop sound that not ...

After briefly being labelmates with The Cure on Fiction Records, the Shepherd's Bush-based group signed to major Polydor and ...