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Jon Savage: This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else – Joy Division, the Oral History (Faber)

Clinton Heylin, The Spectator, 8 June 2019

The post-punk band were great performers. But they sold very few records, and their lead singer committed suicide aged 23

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