“Whenever anybody says, ‘Can you just follow the root note?’ my immediate retort is, ‘Why don't you just f*** off?’”How Peter Hook re-wrote the rulebook on punk bass –and became “allergic to low notes” in the process

Peter Hook of Peter Hook and the Light performing on the main stage during Kendal Calling 2018 at Lowther Deer Park on July 29, 2018 in Kendal, England.

Co-founded by bassist Peter Hook, guitarist Bernard Sumner, drummer Stephen Morris, and the brooding, charismatic singer lan Curtis, Joy Division scorched the British punk-rock landscape, planting the seeds of what would later define the mid-1980s' raved-up ‘Madchester’ sound.

“We were very young and full of energy,” Hook told Bass Player back in September 2017. “We just played hard and fast as much as we could.”