His epilepsy, which he had been diagnosed with in December 1978, was getting worse as fits were becoming stronger and more frequent, both on-stage and off. He had already tried to commit suicide once. This is echoed by IanвЂ™s mother, who has emphasized that her sonвЂ™s life wasnвЂ™t tragic and by Peter Hook, who describer Ian as a people pleaser and вЂone of the lads, as far as we were concerned.вЂ™ Look beyond the day at handД«ut however much Ian kept a straight face and could be fun to be with, in retrospect there were many signs that he was not well. Including the otherwise excellent film Control, based on IanвЂ™s wife Debbie CurtisвЂ™s book, Touching from a distance.ДЄccording to Joy DivisionвЂ™s main photographer, Kevin Cummins, Ian was fun to be with, вЂbut has this image of a depressed reclusive gloomy romantic hero because I only released photographs of Ian looking depressed.вЂ™ Perhaps because the band did few interviews, because the cover-art contains little information about the band, or because the pictures and footage that were published and released of them were almost exclusively black-and-white. The perfect friend or partner for Ian would have combined all those things, but if that person exists they were nowhere near our social scene, so he had to be a chameleon вЂ¦ Thinking about it, I bet even Ian didnвЂ™t know who the вЂњrealвЂќ Ian was.вЂ™ The myth and the manДЄ lot of the myth and mystique surrounding Joy Division in general, and Ian Curtis in particular, tends to portray a rather more one-dimensional sense of torment and gloom. Who read about human suffering in Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Hesse and Ballard, read to his wife Debbie about how вЂthere is no mystery so great as miseryвЂ™ from Oscar WildeвЂ™s The Happy Prince, and talked about poetry and literature with his girlfriend Annik, who he met after a concert in August 1979.ДЄccording to Peter Hook, вЂthere were just too many IanвЂ™s to cope with. The aesthete who had an obsession with death and rock and film stars who had died young. The lyrics, including a bunch of untitled and unfinished.The lad who partook in all manner of laddish pranks with band and friends, such as fighting, drinking, вЂchasing groupies and pissing in ashtrays and looking at turds in toiletsвЂ™, as Joy Division bassist Peter Hook remembers. I like the book Touching From a Distance because it has all of The article also mentions that Buzzcocks show-'a Factory myth' Steve Morris thought at first it must have been an accident.

Bernard Sumner said he had no idea he would do that. They saw him, his wife found him monday morning, he had hung They dropped him off atДЄ Mexican restaurant on Friday night and that was the last time In May according to Steve Morris Curtis seemed 'content', and had On Easter Monday he went back home and tried Right after that, it happened again in West Hampstead. Dead nice, really.'ДЄ few months before he died, he had a seizure on stage at the I think the lyrics of Ian Curtis are brilliant!!ДЄnyway there was an article in MoJo about Joy Division, the otherД«and members and other friends said that he was just a 'normalД«loke', Hook said that he was 'quiet and polite. We have only the lyrics to decipher for clues. Even someone like Peter Hook, who knew Ian as well as anyone, has told of his shock at his suicide because he couldn't see it coming, so convincing was Ian at making the inner turmoil he described in his lyrics seem like impersonal artistic expression and not, as some of the lyrics turned out to be, chillingly autobiographical. Not that he'd be correct, of course- about Ian I mean.ДЇor those in this thread who have knocked Curtis, I won't even bother defending Ian from a depiction of him in a film, but to the point about Ian failing to live up to the image he projected in the music, his wife, ex-bandmates, and biographers all agree that Ian kept his intellectual side hidden from view. In fact I would imagine that, privately, Morrissey would be as scathing about Curtis as he is about Robert Smith. Out of an admirable sense of respect for the dead, and probably also out of respect for what Joy Division meant to Manchester, Morrissey has always maintained silence about Ian Curtis (although he has slagged off the music of Joy Division and New Order, usually referring to it as 'boring' or, when he's being nice, he says 'their music never did anything for me'). Other than some basic similarities like a love of books and a passion for music their personalities diverge on almost every point one might name.

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