So This Is Permanence

Author : Ian Curtis
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452146500
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book So This is Permanence written by Ian Curtis and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasure trove of personal writings by the great post-punk singer-songwriter—with a foreword by his wife Deborah and an introduction by Jon Savage. So This Is Permanence presents the lyrics and personal notebooks of one of the most enigmatic and influential music artists of the late twentieth century, Joy Division’s Ian Curtis. The fact of the band’s relatively few releases belies the power and enduring fascination its music holds, especially in light of Curtis’s tragic suicide in 1980 on the eve of the band’s first American tour. This volume features Curtis’s never-before-seen handwritten lyrics, accompanied by earlier drafts and previously unpublished pages from his notebooks that shed fascinating light on his writing and creative process. Also included are an insightful and moving foreword by Curtis’s widow Deborah, a substantial introduction by writer Jon Savage, and an appendix featuring books from Curtis’s library and a selection of fanzine interviews, letters, and other ephemera from his estate.

Author : Deborah Curtis
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571322417
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching From a Distance written by Deborah Curtis and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only in-depth biographical account of the legendary lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow. Includes a foreword by Jon Savage and an introduction by Joy Division drummer, Steven Morris. Revered by his peers and idolized by his fans, Ian Curtis left behind a legacy rich in artistic genius. Mesmerizing on stage but introverted and prone to desperate mood swings in his private life, Curtis died by his own hand on 18 May 1980. Touching from a Distance documents how, with a wife, child and impending international fame, Curtis was seduced by the glory of an early grave. Regarded as the essential book on the essential icon of the post-punk era, Touching from a Distance includes a full set of Curtis's lyrics and a discography and gig list.

Author : Peter Hook
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471129802
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unknown Pleasures written by Peter Hook and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Genuinely funny: indeed, the story will… keep you entertained for a very long time' Sunday Times Joy Division changed the face of music. Godfathers of the current alternative scene, they reinvented rock in the post-punk era, creating a new sound - dark, hypnotic, intense - that would influence U2, Morrissey, R.E.M., Radiohead and many others. This is the story of Joy Division told by the band's legendary bassist, Peter Hook. 'Hook has restored a flesh-and-blood rawness to what was becoming a standard tale. Few pop music books manage that'Guardian 'An honest, enthusiastic account … It's a window like no other into the reality of life in this most aloof of bands' METRO 'An immense account of Joy Division's rise…Having read Hook's book, you'll feel like you were the fifth member of the band' GQ 'A bittersweet, profanity filled recollection… If you like Joy Division, you really have to read it' Q Magazine 'Hook lifts the lid on the real Ian Curtis' NME 'He's frank, incredibly funny, and isn't shy'Artrocker

Author : Jon Savage
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571345387
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else written by Jon Savage and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SUNDAY TIMES Top Ten Bestseller#1 Book of the Year, UNCUT#1 Book of the Year, ROUGH TRADEBook of the Year, MOJOOver the course of two albums and some legendary gigs, Joy Division became the most successful and exciting underground band of their generation. Then, on the brink of a tour to America, Ian Curtis took his own life.In This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else, Jon Savage has assembled three decades' worth of interviews with the principal players in the Joy Division story to create an intimate, candid and definitive account of the band. It is the story of how a group of young men can galvanise a generation of fans, artists and musicians with four chords and three-and-a-half minutes of music. And it is the story of how illness and inner demons can rob the world of a shamanic lead singer and visionary lyricist.

Author : Karl Schroeder
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765342850
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Permanence written by Karl Schroeder and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-03-14 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction roman.

Author : Paul Morley
Publisher : Plexus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780859655415
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joy Division: Piece by Piece written by Paul Morley and published by Plexus Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy Division: Piece by Piece is the definitive collection of writings on the legendary cult band. In addition to collecting Morley's own classic works about the band from the late '70s/early '80s, this unique book includes his eloquent Ian Curtis obituary and his hindsight pieces on the significance of the group, framed by an extensive retrospective essay. Contemporary elements include Morley's critique of the films 24 Hour Party People - which told the story of the band's record label, Factory - and Control, for which the author visited the set during production. Most movingly, Morley includes the original text that grew into his literary work Nothing, which parallels the suicide of Curtis with that of his own father. He also evokes the zeitgeist and the 'psycho-geography' of Manchester, which combined to produce the most uniquely intense rock group ever.

Author : Bernard Sumner
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466889888
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chapter and Verse written by Bernard Sumner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Sumner pioneered the post-punk movement when he broke onto the scene as a founding member of Joy Division, and later as the front man of New Order. Heavily influencing U2 and The Cure while paving the way for post-punk revivalists like Interpol, Sumner's has left an indelible mark on punk and rock music that endures to this day. Famously reluctant to speak out, for the first time Sumner tell his story, a vivid and illuminating account of his childhood in Manchester, the early days of Joy Division, and the bands subsequent critical and popular successes. Sumner recounts Ian Curtis' tragic death on the eve of the band's first American tour, the formation of breakout band New Order, and his own first-hand account of the ecstasy and the agony of the 1970s Manchester music scene. Witty, fascinating and surprisingly moving, Chapter and Verse is an account of insights and spectacular personal revelations, including an appendix containing a complete transcript of a recording made of Ian Curtis experiencing hypnotic regression under the Sumner's amateur guidance and tensions between himself and former band member Peter Hook.

Author : Jon Savage
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816672911
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The England's Dreaming Tapes written by Jon Savage and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential companion to England's Dreaming, the seminal history of punk.

Author : Alan Thein Durning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Place on Earth written by Alan Thein Durning and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durning, the executive director of Northwest Environment Watch and commentator on National Public Radio, explores the environmental health of his home region and the ideas behind a sustainable way of life. From an innovative manager of public transportation in Boise, Idaho, to a Seattle shoe cobbler who is making a small stand against our disposable society, this book is filled with thought-provoking and inspiring people, ideals, and results. It shows how the intrinsic value of home can be acknowledged, valued, and preserved.

Author : Kip Fulbeck
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 0811875814
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Permanence written by Kip Fulbeck and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a fringe phenomenon, tattooing is now a full-blown cultural fact. More than 40 million people in the U.S. alone have tattoos, all with unique stories about why they chose to indelibly mark their bodies. Permanence combines photographic tattoo portraits with these stories, told in the subjects' own words and handwriting. Kip Fulbeck brings together young and old of all races, religions, and political persuasions—from celebrities to suburban moms to Hells Angels. Including interviews with celebrity tattooers Kat Von D and Oliver Peck (Miami Ink), hardcore legend Evan Seinfeld, and some regular folks, Permanence is an entertaining and enlightening portrait of the tattooed population today.