Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures (Factory)
Max Bell, New Musical Express, 14 July 1979
JUST WHEN the year's vitality was threatening to be expunged by a non-stop parade of rehashed fashions, 'ordinary geezers' with French Riviera yachts and the acceptable face of cuddley popular music, the Manchester band Joy Division snuck in by the back door, quiet and unannounced.
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