This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral HistoryThe SUNDAY TIMES Top Ten Bestseller Over 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. |
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This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History
Umsögn notanda - Publishers WeeklyIn this excellent oral history, Savage (England’s Dreaming) chronicles the short life of Joy Division, the band that married punk’s anger with hypnotic bleakness. Joy Division was born of northern ... Read full review
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This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: the Oral History Jon Savage Engin sýnishorn í boði - 2020 |
This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: the Oral History Jon Savage Engin sýnishorn í boði - 2019 |