Torn Apart: The Life Of Ian
Curtis
Published: May 2006
400 pages
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Hardback (first edition 4000 copies)
RRP £19.95 (£13.16 at Amazon - see
right)
Ian Curtis biography by Mick Middles / Lindsay Reade.
Includes a lot of previously unrecorded accounts from
Ian’s family and friends, including Annik Honore. Lots
of information right from Ian's childhood up to his
relationship with Annik, including transcripts of
letters. This is the most comprehensive account of
Ian's life so far - including previously unseen
photographs.
This book is highly
recommended by Joy Division Central
 
Linsday Reade and Mick
Middles at book signing
May 2006 (C) Moist
Torn Apart
book press release 2006:
Cloaked in mystique, Joy Division's extraordinary
vocalist Ian Curtis tragically took his own life in
1980, leaving just two haunting albums and a depleted
band that would famously evolve into New Order. Over
twenty-five years later, the cult surrounding Curtis
shows no signs of fading. Researched through dozens of
exclusive interviews with Curtis's family, school
friends, Factory personnel, road crew and - uniquely -
the girl whom Curtis fell in love with during the last
year of his life. Torn Apart is the definitive
biography of this iconic figure.
The authors of this new biography are uniquely
qualified to tell the Ian Curtis story in full detail.
Mick Middles was the first journalist to interview Joy
Division for the music press and formed a close
association with the band that continues to this day.
Lindsay Reade was a co-founder of Factory Records
along with her then-husband Tony Wilson, an active
participant in the rise of Joy Division as well as a
personal friend of Ian Curtis. Both Reade and Middles
have continued to work in the Manchester music scene
and their deep local knowledge informs this first full
length biography which examines Curtis's life, work,
relationships and the cultural environment in which he
lived and died.
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Torn Apart: The Life Of Ian
Curtis
Published: May 2007
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Paperback
£9.86 at Amazon
Paperback copy of the above.
No content changes from
the hardback edition but a number of corrections and
amendments have been made.
We believe this is a
trade paperback, i.e. the same size as the hardback
but with a soft cover.
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