Peter Hook (Photo: Julien Lachaussée)
Peter Hook will tell the inside story of Joy Division in a new book which is due to be published later this year.
Unknown Pleasures – Inside Joy Division is said to chart the ‘friendships, fall outs and camaraderie’ of the legendary band, whose influential career was brought to an abrupt end with the tragic suicide of their frontman Ian Curtis in 1980. It is due for release in October.
“It’s very strange,” Hook has said of the book. “Over the years Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture. A lot of people think they know what happened. But they don’t. Anyone who’s ever written a book or made a film about Joy Division, unless they were sat in that van or car with us, they don’t know anything about it. Me, Barney, Steve, Ian, Rob, Twinny, Terry and Dave. Only us lot know what really happened.”
“I supposed in the end it’s almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. How you might have done things differently and ultimately stopped Ian from doing what he did. What’s harder, what’s much, much harder, is to accept what you actually did do. Accept what you did do, and live with it.”