Joy Division (band)

Joy Division was a rock music band formed in 1977 in Manchester, England. The band dissolved in May 1980 after the suicide of its lead singer Ian Curtis. The remaining members reformed as New Order a couple of months later.

Trivia

• The name change to Warsaw was purportedly inspired by the David Bowie track Warszawa, found on his 1977 album Low.
• Video game designer Hideo Kojima named a black market store in his game Snatcher "Joy Division" in tribute to the band. However, it was changed to "Plato's Cavern" for the English release to avoid potential legal issues.
• The title of another Kojima game, ', is a nod to Joy Division's Substance.
• Warsaw track was featured on 2004's Tony Hawk's Underground 2 video game.
• When the band had recorded Closer, Ian Curtis was given a copy of the album on cassette. Cassette was a very new medium in 1980, so new, in fact, that he didn't have a cassette player to play it on!
• The first song the band recorded with Martin Hannet as producer was "Digital". This was also the last song they ever performed live before the death of Ian Curtis.