Hindustan Times
There are some bands that divide rock music fans into two unambiguous groups. One group that knows all that is worth (and even not worth) knowing about them; and, the other that hasn’t even heard of them. I can think of a few bands that are like that. Take Joy Division. These British harbingers of post-punk melancholic music were a band that was nipped in the bud (1976-80) when frontman Ian Curtis killed himself but their influence was huge. Yet, they’re a band that either you’ve heard and adore and know everything about (including how bad Control, the 2007 biopic on Curtis, was) or you’ve never even heard of them.
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 5:38 pm
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