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S1E1: Band Meets Singer

Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division & New Order

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The Rise and Fall of Ian Curtis

Singer explains the songwriting process. I get a vocal line. I always. What I do is usually I get the vocal melody. There's usually some of the words that I've sung at the time. I do key, I'm right, I'm all with it to play the mood of the song. That's a good tune. The first time I realised we had something special musically was when we were down to do a gig called Stuff the Superstars in the Mayflower,. It was our right dump in Bellevue in Manchester. And literally, as I was watching the room, everybody stopped and turned around and started to watch us while we played for the first time ever

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