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  • ian had such a sweet voice! God I would listen to him talking all day long,

  • can anybody write in english what are they talking about?

  • Is there an interview of Ian in front of a camera? I wish there was one...

  • Martin Hannet was the guy who 'gave' Joy Division their sound..He was a genius & an addict too unfortunately..but I knew Martin & loved him lots..A proper character with a supremely intelligent brain..great company..very funny & silly..But when he was sat in that producer's chair he really was 'Chairman Of The Board -(or Console)' !! A brilliant music producer..I still miss him..his funeral was a torrid affair. God bless you Martin RIP my friend. Peace Rx

  • @Waitingforriki Susanna O'hara where are you !!!??????? Find me on FB..would be brilliant to hear from you after all these years !! If you read this I hope you are very well & please get in touch ? Rxxx

  • God I love and I miss Ian so much!!!!

  • This breaks my heart.

  • so sad to hear him laugh and not being able to see him

  • cual es ian curtis el que habla primero depues de que los presentan o el segundo.=)

  • @lalisnip segundo.

  • @LiveJoyDivision gracias

  • @lalisnip el empieza a hablar en 0:38

  • stephen morris was right, he was an ordinary bloke just like you and me who liked a bit of a laugh. i was expecting somme dark pesimistic fella like robert smith but i couldn't have been more wrong.

  • @PrisonBreakFilms lmfao robert smith. yea i seriously pictured ian to speak in his deep singing voice about how hopeless everything is. like someone would say "oh wow you guys are really heading somewhere" to which he would reply "what does it matter? we are all just going to die one day". that type of thing. and i'm not mocking him. a lot of 'artsy' people say those kinds of things. but ian seemed to be far more down to earth than a lou reed or david bowie (although i love them as well)

  • ian is the guy with the higher voice. weird huh?

  • like I like the doors! barney, hooky ant even heard the doors! hahahaha

  • which one is Curtis?

  • For some reason I always expected Ian to speak in his deep singing voice.

    That would be hilarious....

  • The best Joy Division interview ive heard, Theres not alot form the era and theyre usually not really relevant but here stephen has some really interesting things to say. a true gem, thanks for sharing

  • Ahh just read back & its Steve then Ian in that order. Doesn`t Ian sound like a rite plumb, Mark Owen if I ever heard!! rofl

  • I can hear Barney, I can hear Steve please tell me where Ian is? ta.

  • @tranmer3: It's not Barney, he's not even there. It's Ian.

  • but i can hear bands today that have joy division been influenced by joy division

  • was it not john peel that did this interview

  • @MrAlanc123 I've got this interview on an old cassette i taped in 1979, i think it was from a radio programme called "rock-on", the voice at the start is Tommy Vance(?) but Skinner def did the interview. Hope that helps mate?

  • Ian has such a sexy voice and i'm a man saying that

  • @likelylike you must be bi

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  • Thanks so much for posting this.

  • so ppl dont get confused stephens voice sounds a little louder and a little faster and ians is kinda quiet and slow

  • Considering his singing voice is quite deep I was suprised to hear Ian with an... well normal voice!

  • @scotty5003 I think I remember reading somewhere that his his vocals were processed with a vocoder to lower the pitch of his voice

  • Would Ian have liked New Order if he was still alive?

  • "I don't think they can afford the train fair up here" xD

  • which one is Ian?? I cant tell haha

  • @KinkKontroversy

    Ian begins speaking at 0:39 ("At the time when we start in Manchester...")

    Stephen has a bit of a higher pitch and talks faster.

  • totally mad i heard this interview a few years ago but it was a bad copy, kinda mad hearing his voice, i got diagnosed with epilepsy at about 20 as well so i kinda have a few things in common and the stories i have heard about how his illness made him feel its not a big shock that he did take his own life. sad. r.i.p ian (sadly missed kid)

  • hahah he sounds like ashley from coronation street...not dissing, just sayin.

  • the cooler sounding voice is ian

  • THEY BEAT THE BEATLES

  • @scatcam let's not get carried away now.. 'The Beatles'..?

  • @Waitingforriki you are fuckin joking mate they were more influential than the beatles who were only a mainstream pop band

  • @londoncalling45 Do NOT leave idiotic comments about things you know nothing about??? I am NOT interested in your opinion..so don't bother giving me shite..cheeky fuck!!

  • @Waitingforriki well dont write anything derogratory about Ian please

  • @londoncalling45 I didn't..!? I would not be derogatory toward Ian Curtis! I was a good friend of Joy Division's producer! I was at his funeral! I loved martin a great deal & I know in turn how much he truly loved & admired Ian Curtis..he 'never' got over his suicide & in turn he too died..of heroin abuse..btw one is allowed to 'like' the Beatles..millions love 'em..cheeky scouse scamps that they were..Right let's leave it there yes? Peace!

  • @Waitingforriki i am humbly apologetic then I must of got the wrong person I too knew martin and Tony so i too know the suffering of martin and Lindsey which is often overlooked by people guess my emotions are running high they always do through this part of May peace to you as well mate

  • @londoncalling45 Thanks very much, that was very kind of you to say so..am touched by your response..hey..we live & learn 'eh? XX

  • @Waitingforriki BOTH friends of martin and tony ? then why dident you know each other ? BOTH UTTER BULLSHIT FANTASISTS I SAY !!!!!! YOUVE GOT TO LAUGH!!!!!!!! 

  • @Waitingforriki plus I have forgotten more about music over the last 30 years than you know

  • @londoncalling45 Hahahaha!!! You wish my friend..you wish!!

  • Which one is Ian Curtis?

  • @Jauwp the second to speak.

  • @SomaLFM not counting the host

  • @SomaLFM WOW,wtf...what a shocking news to hear about his voice...

  • He'll never know the lives he saved.

  • Ian WAS post punk.a pioneer...he never got started really,.shame..R.I.P.

  • ian curtis is one of the most influential musicians ever. he will truly be missed my millions around the world. pretty much anyone who's ever picked up a joy division album has been, since then, hooked. for me it was when i first saw control, which is a brilliant movie, by the way. ian's death was a tragedy in the world of music, and his legacy will live on forever.

    RIP IAN KEVIN CURTIS

    July 15th, 1956 - May 18th 1980

  • I believe he's already been missed for quite some time now

  • @pasroc ... FUCK YOU! Viva JD!

  • pasroc, you are an idiot who listens to Riverdance and plays in a terrible prog band. Your opinion on music is made completely null and invalid based on your obvious lack of taste.

  • make Joy Division #1 in the UK for 18-05-10, it will have been 30 years since Ian passed, push Love will tear us Apart to the top, there is a facebook group

  • This is a classic recording...thanks for posting

  • when exactly was this recorded? It's a rare thing to hear Curtis actually talk

  • great accents. rip ian curtis.

  • Ian Curtis = Legend, how he managed under so much stress n pain due 2 his medical conditions baffles me, but lets not forget Joy Divison other Legend Bernard 'Barney' Sumner, This man is shere Class, Joy Division are fantastic, thanks for this vid m8

  • Turns out Gary Numan was right! (I love Joy Division, New Order and Gary Numan)

  • Thanks for posting this. Ian Curtis is a genius!

  • we all know the songs are based around his life.

  • has anyone noticed how in the song love will tear us apart how he says.... why is this bedroom so cold, turned away on your side...i found out that it reffers to when he and his girlfriend deb where in a bedroom that was cold, and she was lying on her side.. i found this out by reading the book, touching from a distance, which CONTROL was based on..... just thought i might say that... i found it interesting

  • why is that of any interest to anyone?

  • same reason it is of interested to know why to you.

  • yep, that's me. My pleasure.

  • @oONEILLo94

    You had to read the book to reach this conclusion?

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  • I've heard Hank Burroughs was an influence for Joy Division, although I've never heard Ian say so directly.

  • Just After Watching Control And All I Can Say Is Wow.... Incredible...

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  • ok with you ginamaria. i've seen control many times and i do not grow tired of it. joy division is eternal

  • I personally can't see any influences of other bands in Joy Division.

    They're just...Joy Division.

  • wow i agree

  • @StrummerLivesxxx AMEN!!

  • @StrummerLivesxxx There completely and utterly influenced by the Doors. If u cant hear that, ure tone deaf. Yeah, the bassist supposedly never heard of the doors(which is unbeleivable), but Ian Curtis wrote the music.

  • @paulmaguire12345 i do not know that for sure but i do know that they say they were influenced heavily by the emerging punk groups at the time especially the buzzcocks. the buzzcocks were also featured a lot in control.

  • @dilliei  the buzzcocks werent in control!!!!!

  • @paulmaguire12345 ian curtis never wrote any music for joy division (peter hook)

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  • @birdandthe ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?

  • @irreversible1988 ?????????????

  • @paulmaguire12345 ian liked the doors, and he liked bowie. the album LOW. check it out.but they had thier own sound... i mean music styles dont just come up out of thin air.. but they came pretty close

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  • @StrummerLivesxxx The members of joy division met at a pistols gig, so I think it be fair to assume that the pistols influenced. The energy joy division channels seems really quite similar to the energy channeled by punk bands

  • @StrummerLivesxxx .So true

    They also say that pixies where the masters of simple basslines.

    less true, cause joy division does it even better!

  • @bybnlia Aha I couldn't agree more !

  • @StrummerLivesxxx never heard of Interpol?

  • @LH270677 Umm yes, do you not know that Interpol came waaaaay after Joy Divison, so it's impossible for Joy Divison to be influenced by them...

    The other way round though.

  • @StrummerLivesxxx I misread your comment; that's what happens when you do crystal meth at 2 in the morning.

  • @LH270677 Oh Lmao !

  • @StrummerLivesxxx really? theres definitely  a punk influence

  • @StrummerLivesxxx Theres definite punk influences. But Joy Division wasnt really a punk band, they really took it in their own direction and thats what makes them so great. In my opionion, Joy Division was the first real new wave band.

  • @StrummerLivesxxx The Editors? Chapel Club? They both try and sound like Ian.. but not as good! :)

  • @BrenieB he/she means joy division didnt sound inspired by any bands that came before them. the only bands i can hear in them is the doors but its not big inspiration. i think theyre one of the most innovative bands of all time. they practically invented alternative/indie.

  • @StrummerLivesxxx ian is influenced by Sex Pistols

  • @Fenderkicksass And Jim Morrison.

  • @StrummerLivesxxx The riffs are reminiscent of 60's psychedelic rock but outside of this its entirely unique.

  • @StrummerLivesxxx

    Stooges...

  • @StrummerLivesxxx Listen to The Idiot by Iggy Pop, it's what Ian listened to before hanging himself and it's also their biggest influence.

  • @StrummerLivesxxx Are you sure about that? I see the influence in TONS of bands. Some being straight up ripoffs. Like Interpol for example.

  • @charliegrs Other way around.

  • @raftke691 Oh really? So your saying Joy Division ripped off Interpol? Thats pretty amazing considering Joy Division broke up In 1980 after Ian Curtis commited suicide and Interpol didnt form until the late 90s . I guess they must have mastered time travel too.

  • @charliegrs lol you're retarded, i was saying "the opposite" as in he meant other bands prior to joy division influencing joy division... wow ahahahahha

  • @raftke691 you are a total retard if you think joy division are an interpol ripoff.

  • @birchy2k11 hahahahaha not that "other way around", strummerlivesxxx was implying that no bands had influenced Joy Division, then charliegrs implied that it wasn't true because of bands like interpol, which were influenced by joy division. I meant to imply charliegrs misunderstood what strummerlivesxxx had said. this is the 3rd time someone replied with something like that, if i believed joy division was influenced by interpol i don't think i would be fit to even understand how to use youtube.

  • WATCH THE FILM 'CONTROL' its Brilliant!! RIP

  • Steve Morris- great guy-

    always has been!

  • you lot are cocks you know nothing

  • Find your neutral space. Ian is dead and left something.

  • and get your facts stright-jim didnt od, the causes of death are related to an early life of acute alcoholism, which he gave up on months before his (yet unfortunately too late). some people rumor that he overdosed but his biopsy said otherwise, and idk about you but think that is somewhat more reliable then rumors. and as for ian, he was a mess all his life. i think he was a good person and a great poet entertainer, but he was a fucked up if not more fucked up then jim.and he died younger

  • An autopsy was never performed on Jim Morrison, the main reason why so much controversy/conspiracy surrounds his death. The generally accepted cause of death is heroin overdose.

  • @crazyloverboy0808 JIM died of heart failure.. he wasn't on drugs at the time so it wasn't considered an OD BUT he had spent the week speedballin' coke & heroin..... im sure it's unrelated :/

  • did he say he like the doors?

  • yeah... and personally i think he was largely influenced by jim. great bands both of them.

  • fuck you

  • dude everyone has their own opinion and stop being racist please. notice that i said 'and i personally think...'. you don't have to agree with what i said and you also don't have to be a prick. crazyloverboy was only agreeing that he sees similarities.

    just because they come from different countries doesn't mean they cant share styles. curtis fucking admitted his love for the doors. and btw how in any way was jim overweight?

  • Oh come on! Trust you lot to start bleating about racism when any country who doesn't agree with your policies gets the shit bombed out of them. If you knew anything about the Doors, Manzarek was the driving force behind the band, Morrison was just the frontman. Before his death, he piled on the weight through drink and drugs. The other 3 members had had enough of his lack of professionalism and he stayed in France. Curtis, like many of us, saw the Doors for more than just the idiot at the mic

  • wow you really are a good advertisement for all the snobby british steriotypes. wow you really extensively check everyones profile-man you need to get a fucking life. for someone who wasnt even in joy division, you sure seem to know everything about their every experience and feel you have good reason to brag. you wanna throw american steriotypes at me, fine. your arguments are terrible. yes manzarek was very talented, i never said he wasnt more talented then jim. but jim was a great entertainer

  • yeah i can definitely hear alot of jim in ians voice. yur right both great bands (and singers)

  • I doubted that Ian could, or would, be well portrayed in this documentary.

    I was wrong.

    Highly recommended viewing.

    Thanks for posting.

  • i'm surprised by just how high in pitch Ian's speaking voice was

  • it doesn't sound like Ian but it is.. He just sings like that .. brilliant

  • Ulmeyda08 .... give it a rest for fuck sakes!

  • Stop whining wankers. all is good in its own special way.

  • Ulmeyda08, you're dead annoying, shut up lol.

  • Your grandad was annoying too.

  • a hope he haunts you :D

  • And i hope you stop dressing like a scene twat.

  • i don't. how would you know what i dress like, stalker.

  • No, it's in your profile picture you fucking nitwit.

  • Calm down haha, taking a stupid youtube discussion pure serious. You're trying to insult me, haha.

  • Ahh remember the bootleg tape cassette "shops" back in '79 - usually a hole in the wall, and you'd go in and there'd be a rack of tapes on the wall and I got all my live tapes then for four each, and this recording was one of the tapes with I think the Plan K concert.

    PS Penetration were a great band and I'm still in love with Pauline Murray!

  • there is a famous saying . 'what happens it manchester today happens in london tomorrow!!' and the areas surrounding manchester..very true of the industrial revolution, the rnb/soul-northern soul era and the early 90's indie scene and even then the clothes in london were crap!! shopping in manchester kicks arse!!

  • he's actually sounds happy, genuinely.

  • yeh ian was really happy during the time of 'Unknown Pleasures', he once stated..

    he got married too young. such a shame, such an amazing album.

  • plus the bass player from muse is from rotherham he went to the same school

  • I thought the Cure ie Robert Smith was from Blakpool no a southerner.

  • Moved to Crawley when he was 9 or 10 so he's both I suppose !!

  • Ian laughs!

    It's amazing. Thanks.

  • stop harking on about the nhs....face it ian killed himself...the epilepsy didnt kill him....

    ian was the greatest frontman of the 80's...remeber that not his fucking conditon....

    i raise my hands up to the miracle that is joy division...fucking hallelujah

  • Being that he died in May 1980, saying he was the greatest frontman of that decade is a bold statement!

    Such a shame he had to go though!

  • hmm name one better...i cite bono on this also

  • Morrissey.

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  • The NHS wouldn't have been able to help Ian, so it does no good to keep harping about it.

    If you know nothing about epilepsy, you have all sorts of medicines you have to try to get the right one for your condition. It's likely he was not on the right medicine or the right dose by then, which screws with your brain biochemistry. It makes you depressed and embarrassed. And that's if you do everything right. Add an affair, drinking, drugs, poor medicine for the time...yeah. The NHS was powerless.

  • everything said here is right im epileptic and ive gone threw 3 different medds drugs and alcohol do screw with it dont fuck around with your meds if you have epilepsy my firend died becuase she started skiping her pills and doing coke and drinking alot

  • my son's name will be Ian !!!

  • oooh, 'diatribe' big word for a nob.

    Firstly, Ian Curtis's daughter strongly says her dad was let down by the NHS.

    Secondly I will type whatever I wish ALWAYS.

    bye bye.

    :)

  • Im sorry for not knowing, but what is NHS

  • The NHS is the British National Health Service set up in 1948 paid for by deductions from our wage packet. It was always meant to be a free service for the UK people but has been wholly open to abuse.

    Unfortunately it is abused that most of the world come here for a holiday for the purpose of getting free operations paid for by the native inhabitants (ie someone like me)

    Due to the total abuse, resources run low - hence the English have to suffer usually - lack of resouces nowadays.

  • Are you still bangin' on 'bout the NHS - jeez, let it go already.

  • nope lol

    down with the NHS !

    :)

  • I have to concur, the NHS is a pile of wank.

    They've given us a mostly free healthcare so we don't have to have expensive private doctors but as a price they make the healthcare shit. xD

    It's free to have a diagnosis but you have to pay for most medications? Lolwut?

    I'm diabetic and my insulin costs money... I never quite understood the whole "pay to live" ethic

  • yeah well, for half my life i was a yank and trust me our healthcare is NOTHING compared to the NHS. F**king CUBA has better than we do. Anyway, what does epilepsy have to do necessarily with Ian Curtis so totally much? We all have crap we deal with, and so did he obviously. I"m damn glad he dealt with it the way he did otherwise we never would've had been graced with his art. So I say shut up about his private affairs.

  • Unfortunately another person let down by the NHS

    RIP Ian

  • Stop spamming the comments sections on every Joy Division video, with your anti-NHS diatribe.

  • Its the whole band.....first voice is Morris, then Curtis, then morris, then hooky, then sumner...curtis's voice is the last one on the interview

  • It's just Ian and Steve, the other two are not in this interview.

  • Ian Curtis's laugh is just sooooooooo beautiful.

  • I heard Ian's voice was the softer one in any interview. In this one where they're asked what influences them Hooky and Barney are mentioned so it has to be Ian and Stephen speaking lol

  • Listening to the interview, I would say it was Ian and Stephen. Based on the fact that when they are discussing influences (2:30-3:05),as a for instance, they mention that "we" like the Doors although Hooky and Barney had never even heard of them. Just my opinion but I've heard other interviews with Ian before, and he has a much higher voice when talking in comparison to how he actually sings.

  • I think I hear Peter Hook and Stephen Morris to be honest.

  • lol if stephen morris hadn't ave been in Joy Division he definitely would have made it as a comedian he is a really funny guy

    only manchester produce the greats...and maybe liverpool