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A thread for extracts from the current batch of news articles about New Order. Just post the part of the article that explains the band's origins.
Translations of foreign language articles would be particularly welcome here.
I'll start:
Daily Telegraph - 10/3/05
Since they formed in 1980 from the ashes of austere post-punks Joy Division, New Order...
Sorry - any source welcome; news, magazines, internet, transcripts of TV presenters, toilet wall graffiti.
It will make a fine archive for future generations to read.
IN THE NUMB aftermath of Iab Curtis's death the surviving members of Joy Division "quietly decided to get on with it", according to Hooky.
Joy Division split, then reformed a few months later as New Order, with Sumner on vocals and Gilbert, Morris's girlfriend, joining on keyboards.
Miranda Sawyer, Sunday August 12, 2001, The Observer
Come on Miranda - TRY HARDER!!!
Then, in 1983, New Order released 'Blue Monday', which became the best-selling 12-inch record of all time. Unfortunately, due to the expensiveness of the sleeve, every time a copy was sold, the band lost money. Hooky says it was 50p a copy; Factory record boss Tony Wilson has it at £1. It's more likely to have been around 2p, but even then, that's more than £250,000.
Miranda Sawyer, Sunday August 12, 2001, The Observer
THAT'S BETTER
