Ebook: Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me

Examines "Bernard Sumner's childhood, the early days of Joy Division, the band's enormous critical and popular success, and the subsequent tragic death of Ian Curtis. Sumner describes the formation of New Order, takes us behind the scenes at the birth of classics such as 'Blue Monday, ' and gives his first-hand account of the ecstasy and the agony of the Haðcienda days"--Dust jacket flap.;Time Preface -- Streetlights -- Youth -- Complex -- Scumbags -- Rebellion -- Awaking -- The organization -- Cold winds blowing -- Graft -- Agecroft to Islington and that fateful day -- A new sound in a new town -- Resurrection -- Here comes success -- New York, London, Los Angeles, Knutsford -- I've got an idea -- Too much drink, but not enough to lose -- We're sining for England -- Burn bright, live long -- The tempest -- 'It's a disturbing story, there's no way round it' -- 'No matter what you say or who you are, it's what you do that matters' -- The epilogue -- Appendix One: Ian Curtis and Bernard Sumner hypnosis recording -- Appendix Two: A Conversation with alan Wise -- Picture Acknowledgments -- Index.