What was joy division

Their recorded legacy amounts to two full-length albums - Unknown Pleasures and Closer - and a handful of singles and spare tracks, recorded between the summer of and the Spring of There was no question that the three remaining members - guitarist Bernard Sumner , bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris - would carry on.

It was a principled stand that the musicians observed when they lost Ian Curtis. This meant that when the band reconvened after the funeral, they had to start from scratch. No singer, no songs - and no name. The band had already been through a couple of name changes: for their first ever gig in May , promoter Richard Boon suggested that the group call themselves Stiff Kittens , after an unfortunate incident featuring some stillborn pet cats belonging to Pete Shelley of local heroes the Buzzcocks.

Warsaw changed their name to Joy Division in January , taking the title from the term given to the wings of Nazi concentration camps in World War II. Most known song is "Love will tear us apart". Played gloomy goth rock , post punk, new wave style. Think of The Cure only Joy Division is more depressive. Ended up because lead singer of the band, Ian Curtis , who suffered from epilepsy and depression, commited suicide by hanging in May 18th at the age of This band is not so known but their influence to the whole goth, post punk and new wave music was tremendous.

If you are goth and don't know this band, shame on you. They formed a band with another friend, Terry Mason, and bought instruments to start playing together. The threesome hired Ian Curtis after advertising for a vocalist, without audition, as they knew him from around the Manchester music scene. This was rejected, however, and instead the band was called Warsaw, referencing the David Bowie song Warszawa from They played their first gig under this name later that year, supporting John Cooper Clarke and the Buzzcocks.

Later that year they hired Stephen Morris to be their drummer, after Terry became their manager and their replacement drummer, Steve Brotherdale, was fired. The group then underwent a rebrand, adopting the name Joy Division to avoid confusion with the London punk band Warsaw Pakt.

The name was borrowed from the novel House of Dolls, which referred to a sexual slavery wing of a Nazi concentration camp. While it is not clear who came up with Joy Division, the influence was the concentration camp novel, and the change was made in early , though they were still billed as Warsaw at the beginning to ensure their fans knew them.

The band also includes a short excerpt from the novella in one of their early songs, No Love Lost. The song was their first single and the cover depicted a Hitler youth member beating a drum.