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Joy Division: The Eternal

Jon Savage, MOJO, February 2007

Jon Savage returns to the claustrophobic urban landscape of post-punk northern England to re-examine the soul-scorching singular vision of the band's late vocalist, Ian Curtis, and asks how this intense young poet of urban desolation became a 21st century icon.

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