Unknown pleasures peter hook5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Ian Curtis, whom Sumner and Hook already knew, applied and, without having to audition, was taken on. Forming a band with their friend Terry Mason on drums, Sumner on guitar and Hook on bass, they advertised for a singer. ![]() Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook had separately attended a Sex Pistols show at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall on 4 June 1976 and both embraced that band's simplicity, speed and aggression. Joy Division formed in Salford in 1976 during the first wave of punk rock. It has since received sustained critical acclaim as an influential post-punk album, and has been named as one of the best albums of all time by publications such as NME, AllMusic, Select, Rolling Stone, and Spin. It is the only Joy Division album released during lead singer Ian Curtis's lifetime.įactory Records did not release any singles from Unknown Pleasures, and the album did not chart despite the relative success of the group's non-album debut single " Transmission". The cover artwork was designed by artist Peter Saville, using a data plot of signals from a radio pulsar. The album was recorded and mixed over three successive weekends at Stockport's Strawberry Studios in April 1979, with producer Martin Hannett contributing a number of unconventional recording techniques to the group's sound. ![]() Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by English rock band Joy Division, released on 15 June 1979 by Factory Records. ![]()
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