book: Joy Division: Piece by Piece

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	• Joy Division: Piece by Piece Paul Morley Plexus Publishing, 2008 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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"the past is now part of my future, the present is well out of hand."

A cerebral, spectacular look inside the Manchester scene from one of the best writers in rock history. The book takes you back to the post punk era then to the present for Morley's feelings, and inspirations for his writings, which are very poignant, especially his revealing how his fathers death boookends the journey of Joy Division, and how it may have subconciously influenced him.

This is the best book I have read on the enigmatic Manchester scene, which I have always been fascinated with. If you are the same, this is a must have.

If you have read or own the 1984 book "An Ideal For Living" which chronicled every gig of Joy Division with the writings of Paul Morley, you will be reading things that you have in the past, but "Piece By Piece" is presented in such a more organized and engrossing fashion that it is worth purchasing.

I would give 5 stars, but would like to have seen more rare or unseen illustrations.

Title quote is from the song "Heart and Soul" by Joy Division

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Paul Morley knew Joy Division intimately. He not only wrote extensively and evocatively of the ?mood, atmosphere and ephemeral terror? that enveloped the group and their doomed front man, Ian Curtis, but he was present when Curtis suffered his life-changing epileptic seizure following a London concert in April 1980 and was the only journalist permitted to view Curtis? corpse. Joy Division: Piece By Piece encompasses his complete writings on the group, both contemporary and retrospective. In addition to collecting all of Morley?s classic works about the band, the book includes his eloquent Ian Curtis obituary and hindsight pieces on the group?s significance, framed by an extensive retrospective essay, as well as his reviews of the films 24 Hour Party People and Control. Morley, who emerged from Manchester at the same time as Joy Division, effortlessly evokes that city?s zeitgeist and psycho-geography to tell the story of this uniquely intense group.

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