Joy Division: Forty years on from 'Closer'
This month marks four decades since the release of the classic record that would also be Ian Curtis’s final album with Joy Division. chats to a number of Cork music fans about what it meant to them
At some point in the final year of his life Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis sat down in the living room of his home in Macclesfield, 16 miles south of Manchester, and put on a Frank Sinatra record. Curtis was at the time working on material for the band’s much-anticipated second album. Joy Division’s disembodied 1979 debut, Unknown Pleasures, had been acclaimed as a leap forward for post-punk.
