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Chapter and verse : New Order, Joy Division and me

Title
Chapter and verse : New Order, Joy Division and me / Bernard Sumner.
Author
Sumner, Bernard
Publication
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2015.

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Description
343 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
Summary
Examines "Bernard Sumner's childhood, the early days of Joy Division, the band's enormous critical and popular success, and the subsequent tragic death of Ian Curtis. Sumner describes the formation of New Order, takes us behind the scenes at the birth of classics such as 'Blue Monday,' and gives his first-hand account of the ecstasy and the agony of the Haçienda days"--Dust jacket flap.
Subject
  • Sumner, Bernard
  • New Order (Musical group)
  • Joy Division (Musical group)
  • Rock musicians > England > Biography
  • Rock musicians
  • England
Genre/Form
Autobiographies.
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Time Preface -- Streetlights -- Youth -- Complex -- Scumbags -- Rebellion -- Awaking -- The organization -- Cold winds blowing -- Graft -- Agecroft to Islington and that fateful day -- A new sound in a new town -- Resurrection -- Here comes success -- New York, London, Los Angeles, Knutsford -- I've got an idea -- Too much drink, but not enough to lose -- We're sining for England -- Burn bright, live long -- The tempest -- 'It's a disturbing story, there's no way round it' -- 'No matter what you say or who you are, it's what you do that matters' -- The epilogue -- Appendix One: Ian Curtis and Bernard Sumner hypnosis recording -- Appendix Two: A Conversation with alan Wise -- Picture Acknowledgments -- Index.
ISBN
  • 9781250077721
  • 1250077729
  • 9781466889880 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
  • 1466889888 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015025027
OCLC
  • ocn912140746
  • SCSB-1837466
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library