Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, lyricist and occasional guitarist of the band Joy Division, with whom he released the albums Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Closer (1980).

Nov 16, 2009 · On May 18, 1980, Ian Curtis, lead singer and lyricist of the British group Joy Division, hangs himself in his Cheshire kitchen. He was only 23 years old.

Jun 7, 2024 · On May 18, 1980, the day before their band Joy Division were due to fly out to the United States for their first American tour, Ian Curtis and Bernard Summer had planned to go water-skiing in Blackpool with friends from another band, Section 25.

May 21, 2022 · It has been 42 years since Ian Curtis, the lead singer of the legendary post-punk rock band Joy Division, took his own life. After battling epilepsy and depression, Curtis died on May 18, 1980....

May 17, 2024 · Ian Curtis – beneath his unassuming Northern front – was a gifted poet and original thinker, clearly battling a debilitating illness and the stresses of a messy personal life. Within weeks of his death, Love Will Tear Us Apart, one of Joy Division’s last recordings, reached Number 13 in the chart.

Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis’s status as a musical and pop cultural icon is well and truly cemented at this point, but what about all the nitty-gritty facts that flesh out his all-too-short story?

Jul 15, 2021 · When Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis took his own life, he posthumously gained the iconic status attributed to most rock’n’roll stars who die prematurely. Yet, in so many ways, he didn’t fit the profile.

May 18, 2022 · When Joy Division released Unknown Pleasures in 1979 Ian Curtis was only 22. The record defined post-punk. Curtis was shooting to stardom. A year later he was dead. His art remains iconic and has proved so influential that it will now live on in the welter of musical influence forevermore.

Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980) was the lead vocalist and lyricist of the English rock band Joy Division. Shortly after his death, the three surviving members of the band reconstituted themselves as New Order.

Ian Curtis. Soundtrack: Donnie Darko. Ian Curtis was born in Old Trafford, Manchester, at the Memorial Hospital. He grew up listening to The Who and The Rolling Stones, and other heroes of his teenage years included David Bowie, Jim Morrison, …