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Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division

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Joy Division's singer and lyricist Ian Curtis committed suicide in 1980, barely a year after the band's stunning debut album, UNKNOWN PLEASURES. Sensitive, ambitious, and intelligent, Curtis was also a death-obsessed epileptic. In this moving and absorbing recounting of their life together, TOUCHING FROM A DISTANCE, his widow Deborah Curtis's intimate knowledge of her husband's personality makes for a deeply personal evocation of his life. She tells of his early dabblings with a bohemian lifestyle, including an oddly charming description of their first meeting, during which he wore his sister's pink fluffy jacket, and his glue-sniffing habit, as well as his first explorations into punk rock and her pain on discovering his later affair with Belgian journalist Annik Honor. Essential reading for Joy Division fans and anyone with even a passing interest in British punk, TOUCHING FROM A DISTANCE atmospherically captures the barren existence and small pleasures of 1970s Britain, and the essential escape route from drudgery that punk rock became.