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Shout for joy

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22 May 2015

dominic salter/men

Shout for joy: Joy Division's entire back catalogue of 46 songs was played at Christ Church, Macclesfield, on Monday night, to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the death of the group's singer, Ian Curtis. The songs were performed by the Joy Division bassist, Peter Hook, and The Light in a three-and-a half-hour concert in the church that Curtis attended as a child, and where he was married, before he took his own life at the age of 23

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