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Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert step away from New Order

New Order will be without Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert "for the foreseeable future", "due to personal health reasons".

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“Grown men were coming up to him with tears in their eyes, saying how he would never fully understand what the song had done for them over the years”: Producer Stephen Hague tells us how he made “the best English football record” with New Order

Producer Stephen Hague shares how he helped New Order top the charts - and turned John Barnes into a rap icon - with the iconic 1990 English football anthem World in Motion

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"I will never play with them again. I’d rather die than play with them." Don't hold your breath for a New Order reunion performance at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony

Peter Hook makes his feelings on a New Order reunion crystal clear

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“Walk on. Press a button. Leave the gear to play a song all on its own. While we piss off back to the booze in the dressing room and chortle to ourselves”: The mistakes and judicious choices that made New Order’s Blue Monday

Still the biggest-selling 12-inch of all time

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“No one expected it to sell, but it did sell, didn’t it?”: the crazy story of an era-defining 80s classic that shifted millions but had such an expensive sleeve it sold at a loss

Someone forgot to run the numbers…

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“People really go ape*** for the dance tracks”: saluting New Order’s imperious 2015 album Music Complete as it turns 10

The synth-pop trailblazers’ most recent record came out a decade ago and increasingly looks like a fantastic and fitting farewell

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“lan spotted that the relationship between high bass and low guitar was really interesting and unusual. My style of playing came from that”: Peter Hook’s ‘lead bass’ approach spawned a catalog of hits with Joy Division and New Order

One of the most influential bassists of the ‘80s, Peter Hook developed a style marked by open-string drones, and a dark, chorus-drenched tone

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New Order release third Blue Monday t-shirt in aid of mental health charity CALM

New Order have launched another 'Blue Monday' t-shirt to raise funds for the mental health charity CALM.

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“Every time I hear Love Will Tear Us Apart, I grit my teeth and remember myself shouting down the phone... I can feel the anger in it even now”: The story of Joy Division's swan song

"He was obsessed. Martin sensed it was a song that was going to last forever and wanted to make it really special"

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UNC Charlotte Amps Up the 49ers Fans with Audio Gold

Multiple Connect Series 354D amplifiers power the immersive audio experience.

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Running the country while choosing the curtains: how new PMs move in to No 10

Compared with other countries, the speed at which Downing Street changes hands is unusual – and can be brutal

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"Gazza had the rhythm, everything, but you cannot understand one word of what he’s saying": the making of New Order's classic England anthem World In Motion

A few members of the team had a go at doing the John Barnes rap to much less success

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"Rather naively, we thought we'd write a song that could be played by machines and all we'd have to do was press the button": The real reason New Order made Blue Monday, and the gear that powers it

The birth of a landmark track. Plus, learn how to recreate that famous Moog bassline

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Man who wanted to build a timber home in the countryside to grow his own food wins planning battle

A council has been told it acted unreasonably in rejecting his One Planet development bid

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“We don't want people to know what we think”: Why Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures may be the most important record to emerge from the UK punk scene

Released on June 15, 1979, Joy Division's bleak, beautiful masterpiece has lost none of its power or stark dread

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Five new bands you need to hear if you love Joy Division

Joy Division have become one of the most influential alternative bands of the last 40 years, and these five new bands are bringing that sound bang up to date

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Couple recreate wedding day photo at same unusual venue 30 years later and similarities didn't end there

They had the same photographer, went to the same reception venue and more!

Daily Mirror

Pensioner 'with three wives' leaves people in stitches at odd request in his obit

Stephen Morris' obituary left people laughing after he made an unusual request about his funeral at the end of it - his family described him as the 'life of the party'

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Daily Mirror

'Bewildering yet lovable' man's funny obituary asking for 'p**s up' instead of funeral

Stephen Morris, from Brisbane, Australia, was described as "trying and bewildering" in a the hilarious tongue-in-cheek tribute about his character

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‘We had the foundation of a fantastic third album’: Peter Hook talks Joy Division, Ian Curtis, New Order

It’s noon on a Thursday, yet Peter Hook is still lying in his bed in a hotel room in Toronto as he joins our Zoom video call.

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Killer screams 'f**k the system' and calls judge 'fat paedophile' as life sentence given

Rueben Murphy from Huyton ranted and raved in the courtroom during his sentencing for the murder of Patrick Boyle in a "remorseless" street execution-style killing

Liverpool Echo

Wild-eyed killer rants and raves at judge as he gets life for street execution

Rueben Murphy called a High Court judge a "fat paedophile" in a shocking outburst

The Independent UK

Joy Division stars reflect on Ian Curtis’ suicide during 42nd anniversary event

Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris spoke during the panel session attended by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.

Daily Mirror

Joy Division call for better mental health services 40 years on from Ian Curtis' death

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer reflected on Ian Curtis' death on Wednesday, as the late star's former Joy Division bandmates lobbied MPs at the Houses of Parliament during Mental Health Week - calling for better mental health services

The Independent UK

Joy Division joins call for suicide to become public health emergency, 42 years after Ian Curtis death

‘Mental health needs to be treated on a par with physical health,’ say band members Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris

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