JOY Division fans waiting for an insight into the mind of the band's tortured genius, Ian Curtis, will finally be able to watch the new documentary about the group when it is released tomorrow.
Curtis, who hanged himself in 1980, has already been the subject of one film, the award-winning Control.
The new film, directed by Grant Gee, includes interviews with the remaining members of the band, and with Factory Records founder Tony Wilson shortly before his own death last year.
In one clip, bassist Peter Hook says: "The beauty of Joy Division is that we didn't know what we were doing, didn't know why we were doing it, and yet the chemistry was unbelievable.
"Maybe Ian might have known, I suppose that's something we'll never find out."
Hook also reveals that neither he nor Bernard Sumner had actually liked Unknown Pleasures, Joy Division's debut, him because he wanted it "to lop people's heads off and kick them in the teeth, like Iggy and the Stooges live", and Bernard because the record was simply "too dark" to bear repeated listens.
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Elsewhere, artwork designer Peter Saville talks about creating the iconic "pulsar" sleeve for Unknown Pleasures and how he hadn't actually heard the music when he came up with it.
He also tells the story of having to point out to Tony Wilson that putting a tomb on the front of the Closer album, which was released after Curtis' death, might not be the wisest idea. Clearly Wilson ignored his advice.
Joy Division' also includes the first filmed interview with Curtis's Belgian girlfriend Annik Honoré, who provided the third side of an awkward love triangle with his wife Deborah.
"None of them realised how strong and powerful the music was," says Honoré. "It is just like a love story.
"Each individual is nothing on their own, but when they click together it's enormous. They just had the light and the spirit."
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