Inside Joy Division

«We carried on like everything was all right and pretended that Ian wasn't ill, wasn't struggling with the responsibility of the band and didn't have some heavy, heavy affairs-of-the-heart stuff to contend with. We carried on. With Ian's blessing we carried on; Ian, who out of all of us most wanted us to taste the fruits of success and didn't want his illness to get in the way. (...) Who, even though he was the frontman and the focal point, always insisted that we were a group, who used to say, 'All I do is the words and sing. The others do the music.

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We packed everything in a little box once he'd gone, and put it away. Now, of course, Ian's with me all the time, and even this book is as much about him as it is me. But back then - then it was like the group disowned the group. I mean, Joy Division's popularity skyrocketed: 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' came out and was a great success, then Closer, but we didn't promote them, didn't play them, didn't read reviews of them, didn't want to know about sales, nothing. Didn't care about them.
The only thing we took from Joy Division - the only two things, actually - were the songs Ian had left us: 'Ceremony' and 'In a Lonely Place'. To each other we said, 'See you on Monday', and that was it.»