So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks

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Some of the most famous songs of the band include "Love Will Tear Us Apart" , "She's Lost Control", “Transmission” , and "Dead Souls".

Well, here you can see the lines surrounding the couplet, and Curtis’s crossing-through of an alternative line from earlier in the song: “to see what went wrong”. Turn to “She’s Lost Control” and there’s another line that didn’t make it to the record: “and in horror that one day I’d learn the truth ...” You needn’t read too much into such omissions, but you can spend a fruitful few minutes speculating on why the lines were dropped. The book opens with a foreword by Ian’s widow Deborah (whose Touching From A Distance remains a beautifully honest account of her life with Ian and a benchmark in myth debunking autobiography) who gives a brief overview of her relationship with Ian and her reasons behind releasing these writings. She explains how his writings “became an extension of his body” and how he was very private and protective of them.As with all artists (and there are many) taken away from us at a very young age and in their creative prime, there are three things which must always been born in mind, namely:

All of which brings me to “So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks.” As a Joy Division release, it is exactly what one would expect: beautifully designed, bound in gray cloth and printed in white ink, an homage to their posthumous album “Still.” It’s a luscious look behind the curtain of a musician who took his craft as a writer, and his role as a singer, incredibly seriously. Though his words are presented without music, they never come across as poetry. That’s partly because, I think, it’s impossible to read the words without hearing the atmospheric austerity or driving motorik laid down by Barney, Hooky, and Stephen. But it’s also because, by having the scans from Ian Curtis’s notebooks, you can see — and feel — the urgency of his writing, and can imagine him pacing in his Macclesfield flat searching for the right word, or weaving disparate phrases together to fit a song taking shape during rehearsals. An appendix of fragments, early drafts, and lyrics for songs never composed, offers even more insight into Curtis’s process. A second appendix — a hodgepodge of fanzines, show bills, fan letters, and the covers of books from which Curtis drew inspiration — rounds out a book that is both lovely and lovingly assembled. However, in the case of Ian Curtis – the last point is a moot one; the overwhelming majority of everything said and written about Curtis since his death has (for the most part) not been media fuelled ghoulish sanctification or hyperbole. Ian Curtis really was as gifted and talented a writer and performer as is written. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-05-05 15:14:33 Associated-names Savage, Jon, editor, writer of introduction; Curtis, Deborah, editor, writer of preface Autocrop_version 0.0.12_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40466021 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifierDoes she still play Joy Division’s music? “I don’t,” she says softly. “I can hear it if I want to. It’s there in my head.” It is fascinating to read Curtis’ song lyrics in their original hand written versions with visible deletions, corrections, changes and additions – it gives us at least a little insight into the mind of Ian Curtis and the process of his song writing. Clear also is the development and progression in Curtis’ song writing abilities over the short course of time they were written (1977-80).

For those who don't know the story of Ian, he was the lyricist, songwriter and front man of the band Joy Division. He suffered from seizures which grew considerably worse as the bands fame increased. Curtis was born in 1956 and committed suicide on 18 May 1980. His wife has written a biography of his life, which was published 1995 titled "Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division".urn:lcp:sothisispermanen0000curt:epub:e5420d77-6b4b-44d4-8a47-a919fb586774 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier sothisispermanen0000curt Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s26gcv3f8sr Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781452138459 The book "So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks" provides, just as the title implies, plus much more. If you were a fan of Joy Division or not, it must be admitted that the band had a major impact on music at the time. I myself was a great fan of the band, so this book is an incredible treat to own.