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In Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook, bassist for the legendary, groundbreaking band Joy Division, takes readers backstage with the group that helped define the sound of a generation and influenced artists such as U2, Radiohead, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Unlike other books about Joy Division, Factory Records, or lead singer Ian Curtis--who took his own life just before the band's first U.S. Tour--Unknown Pleasures tells Joy Division's story from the unique perspective of one of the three surviving band members.

Told with surprising humor and vivid detail, Unknown Pleasures is the book Joy Division fans have been waiting for.

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"A bittersweet, profanity-filled recollection of their brief existence . . . recalled with Hook's winning Manc gallows humor . . . If you like Joy Division you really have to read it."--Ian Harrison, Q Magazine

"It's a window like no other into the reality of life in this most aloof of bands."--Metro London

"A tiny gem written by a monster musician. It's the best document yet to be produced on Joy Division. There's nothing like hearing the story straight from Hooky's foul mouth."--Rock Cellar Magazine

"A surprisingly funny-and gleefully profane-portrait."--Entertainment Weekly

"Intimate."--San Francisco Chronicle

"An immense account of Joy Division's rise, cataloguing the group's struggle for recognition, their rapidly gained superiority on the Manchester scene and the epic numbness following Ian Curtis' shock suicide. Having read Hook's book, you'll feel like you were he fifth member of the band."--GQ (UK)

"Vivid, funny, and unexpectedly touching, Peter Hook's memoir strips away the shroud of myth surrounding Joy Division to offer a refreshingly gritty perspective on the story of four ordinary young men who together made extraordinary music."--Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84

"Honest, punchy, and rough-hewn . . . a portal into a vivid moment in rock history . . . the life and times of a working band . . . and, in the middle of it all, the transformative power of music."--Los Angeles Times

. The passages where Hook details the recording of the Unknown Pleasures album are fantastic and insightful . . . . the book itself is gorgeous. . .--A.V. Club, The Onion

"Rich in detail."--LA Weekly
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Joy Division changed the face of music. Godfathers of alternative rock, they reinvented music in the post-punk era, creating a new sound--dark, hypnotic, and intense--that would influence U2, Morrissey, R.E.M., Radiohead, and numerous others. The story is now legendary: in 1980, on the heels of their groundbreaking debut album and on the eve of their first U.S. tour, the band was rent asunder by the tragic death of their enigmatic lead singer, Ian Curtis. Yet in the mere three years they were together, they produced two landmark albums and a handful of singles--including the iconic anthem "Love Will Tear Us Apart"--that continue to have a powerful resonance.

Now, for the first time, their story is told by one of their own. In Unknown Pleasures, founding member and bass player Peter Hook recounts how four young men from Manchester and Salford rose from the punk scene to create a haunting, atmospheric music that would define a generation. Peter talks with eye-opening candor about the suicide of Ian Curtis; the band's friendships and fallouts; and the larger-than-life characters who formed the Joy Division legend.

Told with surprising humor and vivid detail, Unknown Pleasures is the book Joy Division fans have awaited for decades.

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  • PublisherIt Books
  • Publication date2013
  • ISBN 10 0062222570
  • ISBN 13 9780062222572
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages400
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