Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook
Author:Peter Hook [Hook, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, General
ISBN: 9781471129803
Google: u-1KBxY7EJ4C
Amazon: B0089LOJ90
Publisher: It Books
Published: 2012-01-01T22:00:00+00:00
‘Not that I’d change anything’
Unknown Pleasures was released to great critical acclaim, with the NME hailing at as an ‘English rock masterwork’ and Melody Maker as one of the year’s best debuts. Though initial sales failed to match the acclaim, word began to spread and Factory soon sold around 15,000, earning the label between £40,000 and £50,000 profit inside six months.
Our next job was a session for Piccadilly Radio, where we recorded our first version of ‘Atmosphere’, called ‘Chance’ at that point, along with ‘Atrocity Exhibition’, which went on to become the opening track on the next album, Closer, except in a Hannett slowed-down stripped-down, effect-heavy version.
To be honest, I always preferred it sounding like the version we did first – or better still when we did it live. ‘Chance’, on the other hand, improved a lot when we re-recorded it. The version we recorded during the session had an organ on it, an old one that Barney had borrowed from his gran. She’d bought it from Woolworths in the 1950s and it was made of old, hard plastic that had gone brittle by the time we got our hands on it. Had a wild sound, though. We liked it straight away, thought it sounded immense and would be great on ‘Chance’. Pleased with the way it sounded, we decided to play the song at our next gig, at the F Club in Leeds with the Durutti Column, and took the organ along. There was no case for it but we stowed it on top of the gear, until Vini came along, put his guitar on top of the stack and knocked the Woolies organ off. All that brittle plastic just shattered when it hit the floor. Gutted. We loved that organ.
Ah well, onward and upward. Unknown Pleasures came out in June and got fantastic reviews. The distribution wasn’t great, of course – that’s what you get for being independent – but our stock was rising; we were in demand. We became like a touring machine.
Me, Bernard and Steve found it exhausting juggling the late nights with work, and we weren’t married. For us, home was a sanctuary. For Ian, once he got out of Steve’s Cortina at night, he was stepping straight into another world of problems: a wife who was uncertain about how she fitted into her husband’s new life, and who felt excluded from it, a victim of Rob’s no-girlfriends policy. An unhappy wife, in other words. And, of cour se, a new baby . . .
Natalie had been born while we were recording Unknown Pleasures, and the fact that I can remember so little about it says less for my memory and more for the fact that Ian hardly mentioned it. There was no big announcement. No session down the pub to wet the baby’s head. I don’t think he would have said anything at all apart from the fact that he’d fainted at the sight of Debbie giving birth, falling, splitting his head open and leaving Debbie to give birth alone while the nurses looked after him.
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