Other doom-and-gloom acts from the period may have spouted nihilistic lyrics and quoted Existentialists such as Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, but no one else compared their sense of despair, isolation and self-loathing with that of a Nazi sex slave, as Joy Division did in its first single, “No Love Lost.” Its cover depicted a Hitler youth member beating a drum. That sinister fact, while lost on the new kids sporting their ubiquitous “Unknown Pleasures” T-shirts - among them Iggy Azalea, Kristen Stewart and the members of One Direction - has only added to the band’s mystique. Online Blitz map shows every bomb that landed on London in WWII If anyone can write the history of rock in 10 songs, it's Greil Marcus
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This Day in Jewish History / Novelist who taught Israelis about the Holocaust But Joy Division’s greatest enigma may have been its name - a reference to the brothel at Auschwitz as depicted in the book “House of Dolls” by Ka-Tzetnik 135633 (Yehiel De-Nur). bands, skyrocketing to fame after their lead singer hanged himself in 1980 to become one of the most bootlegged bands ever. They were the darkest of the late-1970s U.K. We just thought it summed up our new start perfectly.”ĭespite an immediate controversy over the decision in the music press, the name New Order has stuck with the band for nearly 40 years, across the albums Movement, Power Corruption And Lies and Technique and the huge hits Blue Monday, True Faith and Regret.Ian Curtis, with Joy Division in concert at the Electric Ballroom, London, 1979. “Never at any point did any of us consider a certain Mr Hitler,” wrote Peter Hook in his autobiography Substance: Inside New Order. YMCA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Rob Gretton, New Order's manager, in Manchester's Dry Bar, 1991. and the world.Įven when the term was used by former Stooge Ron Asheton, it was inextricably linked with right wing rhetoric - the guitarist was obsessed with Nazi memorabilia and could be spotted wearing an SS officer's uniform at shows. What the band failed to appreciate was that “New Order” was already a heavily loaded term - the phrase gets a few mentions in the book Mein Kampf by none other than Adolf Hitler, as a description of how his planned Holocaust was going to change the face of Germany. “The New Order” was the name of a short-lived Los Angeles band, fronted by former Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton - as Ian Curtis was a huge Stooges and Iggy Pop fan, it was felt that the late singer would approve. This was considered to be “still a bit political”, so was shortened to just “The New Order”, before the “The” was dropped. Gretton suggested another name from a newspaper headline: “The New Order Of The Kampuchean Front”. The rest of the band begged to differ, saying: “F**king hell Rob, no it bloody isn’t.”īernard Sumner performing with New Order, 1981. He’d seen it in a newspaper and suggested: “That’s pretty neutral.” As Morris recalled, he suggested the name “ Khmer Rouge”, which was also the name of a genocidal communist party then terrorising Cambodia. Rob Gretton had been making notes of potential names, which included vaguely political or ominous titles like “Black September” or “ The Immortals”. Factory Records boss Tony Wilson liked the name “Stevie And The JDs”. It would have been a wholly inappropriate and ironic title, given what had happened to their old singer.Īnother stupid suggestion was “The Witch Doctors Of Zimbabwe”, but according to Peter Hook, he and Sumner threatened to quit if they were called that.
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The band and manager Rob Gretton agonised over what to call the new outfit, even playing their first show as a trio on 29 July 1980 without any name at all.Īccording to Steve Morris, one suggestion was "The Sunshine Valley Dance Band", the name of an old school group of his.
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New Order in 1989: Gillian Gilbert, Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Peter Hook.
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So when it came to choosing a new name, the surviving members decided they wouldn’t be caught out like that again - or so they thought. Joy Division, however, preferred to "let the music do the talking", but this lack of overt statement meant that the accusations continued to follow them around. The early punk scene had used the swastika as a way of shocking the older generation, but with the rise of the far right in the UK, it was not a good time to be playing with such potent symbols and there was an angry backlash. The name was taken from a graphic paperback novel written by a Holocaust survivor called House Of Dolls, but the decision would cause the Manchester band no end of controversy, from people who thought the musicians themselves had right wing sympathies. where prisoners were forced into sexual slavery. Warsaw changed their name to Joy Division in January 1978, taking the title from the term given to the wings of Nazi concentration camps in World War II.