A close-up of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album cover

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Ian Curtis performing live with Joy Division in January 1980

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Ian Curtis, performing with Joy Division in Rotterdam in January 1980

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New Order's Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris, Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner in 1986

Where did New Order get the title Blue Monday from?

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Ian Curtis - at work in his persona as Joy Division frontman, and at play at his office Christmas party

Joy Division's Ian Curtis at an office Christmas party is strangely wonderful

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Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures album cover detail

What does the cover of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures mean?

Manchester rapper Aitch and the mural of late Joy Division icon Ian Curtis

Ian Curtis mural to return to Manchester after being covered by Aitch album advert

Can you name all these album opening lines?

Can you name the classic album from the opening line?

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Which songs are these lines taken from? Clue: they're bands from Manchester.

Can you identify all 10 of these Manchester song lyrics?

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Ian Curtis in 1980 and New Order in 1984

Why Joy Division changed their name to New Order

Sid Vicious, Johnny Rotten and Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols perform live at The Winterland Ballroom in 1978

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Ian Curtis of Joy Division

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Ravers in the Hacienda, Manchester

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Aitch has talked about the moment he found out Ian Curtis' mural had been painted over

Aitch was "fuming" over Ian Curtis mural cover up: "I was the most hated person in Manchester for about 40 minutes"