
S1E8: Blue Monday
Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division & New Order
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Blue Mundi - The Best-Selling 12-Inch Single of All Time
New Order's Blue Mundi is the best-selling 12-inch single of all time. The band were inspired by their trips to New York in the early 1980s. But there was another motivation for creating a tune that would last seven minutes and 29 seconds. Peter Hook: "The idea was to get a song that we could play on the sequences so people would stop f***ing mytherness"
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