Joy Division’s influence far outweighs its commercial success as the band’s only two studio albums, Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Closer (1980), have influenced everyone from U2 to The Cure.

I’ve watched them play songs [online] recently, and they’ve dropped the basslines and play it like some weird, bad cover version of a New Order track. So the animosity is obviously still there now.’ ...

Do you know the origin story of Joy Division’s band name?(Picture: Rob Verhorst/Redferns) It’s incredible how quickly facts that were once common knowledge become obscure tidbits, and it seems ...

They then launched into Joy Division’s 1979 single ... there’s this really cool band who are much, much younger than you, that you could also be a father of, due to the age difference ...