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unusual facts about Ian Curtis


Torn Apart

Torn Apart: The Life of Ian Curtis, a 2006 biography of the Joy Division musician by Mick Middles and Lindsay Reade


In the Penal Colony

Ian Curtis of the band Joy Division was inspired by "In the Penal Colony" to write the song "Colony" from the album Closer.

Matt Greenhalgh

He adapted Deborah Curtis's Touching From a Distance—a biopic of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis—into the 2007 film Control, for which he was nominated for the British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay and the Carl Foreman Bafta at the 61st British Academy Film Awards (which he won).

Rob Gretton

Gretton was portrayed by Paddy Considine in the 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, which dramatized the rise and fall of Factory Records, and by Toby Kebbell (who coincidentally plays Considine's brother in Dead Man's Shoes) in the 2007 film Control, a biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis.


see also

Scraping Tokyo '95

#"Isolation" (Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris) – 3:02 originally by Joy Division

Touching from a Distance

It details her life and marriage with Ian Curtis, lead singer of the 1970s British post-punk rock band Joy Division.