Hook begins in media res at a local gig, steps back to nod to Cockney Rebel’s Steve Harley as a musical model, and gives credit to his inspiration, the Pistols. Inspired by the Sex Pistols, self-taught, spare guitarist Bernard “Barney” Sumner (né Dicken and Albrecht) and soon, jazz-trained drummer Steve Morris pioneered not punk - it inspired them in greater Manchester - but expansive, tense, echoed post-punk.Ī conventional rock-star bio’s touchstones don’t weigh this down. The nihilist poses traded in by those who imitated singer Ian Curtis, before and after his suicide, mock the serious intent of the four members to convey music transcending metal, prog, or glam. Told not by a madman, but a droll, deadpan participant-observer, this long saga of Joy Division’s short span signifies far from nothing. As a “working-class tosser from Salford,” bassist Hooky tells his band’s brief tale of sound and fury.
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