This Searing Light, The Sun and Everything Else:
Joy Division: The Oral History - by Jon Savage
Published: May 2019
336 pages
Hardback, holgram sleeve
Publisher: Faber & Faber
RRP £20.00
ISBN-10: 0571345379
ISBN-13: 978-0571345373
Dimensions: 14 x 22.2 cm
Joy Division emerged in the mid-70s at the start of a
two-decades long Manchester scene that was to become much
mythologised. It was then a city still labouring in the
wake of the war and entering a phase of huge social and
physical change, and something of this spirit made its way
into the DNA of the band. Over the course of two albums, a
handful of other seminal releases, and some legendary
gigs, Joy Division became the most successful and exciting
underground band of their generation. Then, on the brink
of a tour to America, Ian Curtis took his own life.
In This searing light, the sun and everything else, Jon
Savage has assembled three decades worth of interviews
with the principle players in the Joy Division story:
Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Deborah
Curtis, Peter Saville, Tony Wilson, Paul Morley, Alan
Hempsall, Lesley Gilbert, Terry Mason, Annik Honoré, and
many more. It is the story of how a band resurrected a
city, how they came together in circumstances that are
both accidental and extraordinary, and how their music
galvanised a generation of fans, artists and musicians. It
is a classic story of how young men armed with electric
guitars and good taste in literature can change the world
with four chords and three-and-a-half minutes of music.
And it is the story of how illness and demons can rob the
world of a shamanic lead singer and visionary lyricist.
This searing light, the sun and everything else presents
the history of Joy Division in an intimate and candid way,
as orchestrated by the lodestar of British music writing,
Jon Savage.
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