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Ian Curtis. 18 - 5 - 80. Love Will Tear Us Apart. Some time early this month, an unknown thief stole this bleakly worded headstone from the former Joy Division singer/songwriter's grave in a Cheshire cemetery. Both Curtis's widow, Deborah, and former drummer Stephen Morris have expressed dismay at what the latter refers to as the taking of "a sick souvenir." Yet this does not feel like a random act of revenant crime: Since the release last year of both Control and Joy Division (respectively, a biopic about Curtis and a documentary), popular interest in the short-lived, darkly brilliant band appears to have been growing. This month's Mojo magazine, for example, featured the Sex Pistols on the cover, and the ravaged band inside, telling the same stories they've been telling for 30 years. They are nowhere present, however, on... [read full story]
