UpDownTurnAround wrote: From TPOIT:
So the internets are abuzz lately with talk of a newly-discovered Joy Division rehearsal tape floating around, featuring not one but five full-length takes on "In A Lonely Place" - the last song written by the band prior to Ian's suicide, and closing with the verse beginning with "Hangman looks round as he waits / Cord stretches tight, then it breaks...". In 1997 this song was released on the Heart and Soul box set, but ending just prior to the final verse (sensitivity reasons to his surviving family, perhaps?). So it would be great to finally hear the long-rumored full-length variant, alas the set has yet to surface publicly on the internets so we will just have to wait.
So maybe this song should stay out of the public domain.
A macabre coincidence? But songs like The Eternal are all basically deathwishes and postmortem visions. Had they played IALP live (hypothetically it could be as well on Still), and Ian would have died the way he did - would it see the light of day? I think so.
