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![[Closer] [Joy Division] [1980] [LP]
Yesterday, on 15 July 2026, Ian Curtis would have turned 70.
With “Closer”, the band Joy Division made music history.
Just a year earlier, they had set a milestone with “Unknown Pleasures”, which turned the band – and with it, Ian Curtis – into a living icon. Most critics described the album as the saddest, darkest and most depressing album of all time. Could anything follow that? Yes, as we all know.
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Ian Curtis, himself heavily influenced by David Bowie, the Velvet Underground, Kraftwerk(!), the Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, Jim Morrison and the writers Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse and Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, shaped everything that came after him with his music – from goth, rock, alternative, indie and post-punk right through to rap.
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The combination of rock and the avant-garde of the late 60s and early 70s, punk, electronic music and literary influences made Ian Curtis who he was. A sensitive young man, trapped in a cold world from which there was no escape, just like in a novel by Kafka.
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How would Ian Curtis have reacted to the immense success of *Closer* had he lived to see its release? Perhaps he would have taken his own life afterwards, as he had always wanted to be famous and die. But perhaps the album became so successful precisely because of Ian Curtis’s suicide? We’ll never really know.
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Whether it was a success or not, *Closer* is one of the most important albums for the music scene as a whole and for me personally – even sadder, darker and more depressing than *Unknown Pleasures*. It has also played a huge part in shaping who I am and who I want to be.
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