She’s Got Control
Len Brown, Q, 1995
Fifteen years after he hanged himself in their Macclesfield kitchen, Joy Division leader Ian Curtis has been "outed" by his widow, Deborah, as an ill-tempered, two-timing, Tory-voting bigot. And yet, "He was very charismatic," she tells Len Brown
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