Peter Hook - THE HACIENDA, How not to run a club.

Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester's Hacienda club, Hook propelled the rise of acid house in the late 1980s, then suffered through its violent fall in the 1990s as gangs, drugs, greed and a hostile police force destroyed everything he and his friends had created. This is his memory of that era and 'it's far sadder, funnier, scarier and stranger' than anyone has imagined.
As young and naive musicians, the members of New Order were thrilled when their record label Factory opened a club. Yet as their career escalated, they toured the world and had top ten hits, their royalties were being ploughed into the Hacienda and they were only being paid £20 per week. Peter Hook looked back at that exciting and hilarious time to write HACIENDA. All the main characters appear - Tony Wilson, Barney, Shaun Ryder - and Hook tells it like it was - a rollercoaster of success, money, confusion and true faith.

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• peter hook
• new order
• hacienda
• dance
• club
• manchester
• joy division
• tony wilson
• barney
• shaun ryder

[eezeedoesit]

sweet, good luck reselling it again in a different form, nuff ppl got to enjoy the magic and much come forth out of it, good luck and respect, cheers from the underground I think I might add ;] x

[mancbaghdaddy]

I'm very happy to say that i went to the hacienda many,many times and saw the transformation from the acid house days through the Nude nights, the SHINE nights and the final Saturday night glam nights with Graeme Park.

There are so many many memories of those days that it would be hard to select one from the vault.

But in 1989 at the end of the night, the light wents off, the green laser hit the disco ball and i heard Orbital Chime for the very first time.

And the place erupted.amazing times

[BirdGirlRomy]

@LoveOfCarnage this is the funniest thing ive heard all week, im literally still giggling. well done! xD

[WizLaudan73]

Just finished this book and think it was great....Couldn't put it down. Before that i read Freaky Dancing, Bez's biography..And that was the same, couldnt put it down.

[technotrig89]

Just finished reading this and i must say its a good insight into the hacienda. Doesnt really focus on factory or the bands its just stuff bout the hac. I never went to the hacienda because i was born in 1989 :( but this book just made me wanna go even more.... if only we had time machines!!!

[Ucaptaf]

Best night December 88' New Order in Concert At the G-Mex and the big H till dawn.

[LoveOfCarnage]

Well, Hacienda that!

[leonardbirde]

BUY THIS BOOK!