Ian Curtis Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Ian Curtis’ “Love Will Tear Us Apart” guitar is going up for auction

When Joy Division committed “Love Will Tear Us Apart” to tape, singer Ian Curtis played this Vox Phantom VI Special

When a band breaks up or changes, there is a good chance that there are going to be differences between

At some point, all of us will shuffle off this mortal coil and join the choir invisible. It doesn’t matter

There’s a burgeoning meme movement to apply Ian Curtis’ singing with Joy Division to real-life situations. In case you missed

Poor miserable Ian Curtis. If only he had taken more time away from Joy Division to enjoy himself at the

Sometime in the early morning hours of Monday, May 18, 1980, Ian Curtis, singer of Joy Division, decided he’d had

Although I am an unabashed Joy Division fan, I’m forever trying to make up for lost time. Even though I

So you’re a huge fan of Joy Division. You see the house where he committed suicide is up for sale.

Yesterday (April 28), actually. Less than three weeks later, Ian Curtis would be dead. (Via Alan)

It was on this day in 1991 that cameras caught cops beating up Rodney King. Just to prove that not

Yes, THAT house. The home where Ian hanged himself in the kitchen sometime in the evening of May 18, 1980.

Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver
The Business of Radio – Elliott Hurst in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 034 June 21, 2021
The commercialization of streaming audio is not a new phenomenon. Going back 100 years, it was simply known by another name, broadcasting. With the launch, rise and now transition to digital and apps, the business models of audio-preneurs have generally been the same, mostly because of the challenge of measurement, a problem audio’s cousin television […]
Mark Silver