"I don't see Joy Division in terms of suicide": Jon Savage, author of 'A Scorching Light, the Sun and Everything Else'

 

Jon Savage writes the biography of this musical band | Special.

With only two LPs in its brief but intense history , Unknown Pleasures (Factory Records, 1979) and Closer (Factory Records, 1980), Joy Division is a cult band that, generation after generation, acquires new and passionate followers . Witnessing the rise of the band, its development and its disappearance after the suicide of singer Ian Curtis  —who suffered from epileptic seizures—, Jon Savage published A Scorching Light, the Sun and Everything Else(Sixth Floor, 2021). The music journalist traces the history of Joy Division through the testimonies of the survivors of the group (which would soon reinvent itself with great success as New Order ), their wives and friends, as well as producers, designers, journalists, photographers and others involved. with the band. https://www.milenio.com/cultura/literatura/joy-division-regresa-libro-luz-abrasadora-sol