Joy Division: The Making Of Unknown Pleasures
Johnny Black, Q, November 1998
Joy Division settle into 10cc's Strawberry Studios in Stockport to record one of the greatest albums of the 70s. But Ian Curtis has just discovered he's epileptic and drug-addled producer Martin Hannett is getting "weirder and weirder..."
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