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I was told to choose a song and write a story. When editor Richard V Hirst was approaching writers for the book We Were Strangers: Stories Inspired by Unknown Pleasures, he said my writing had a northern grimness which reminded him of their music. Growing up in Manchester, Joy Division were part of the musical landscape. Zoe Lambert on channelling Joy Division into fiction Ian managed to beautifully express what so many of us are unable to. Joy Division continue to resonate because of that combination of beauty and brutality. In many ways itвЂ™s hard to separate Joy Division from New Order, who inspired all of the early techno and house producers, myself included вЂ“ IвЂ™ve covered New Dawn Fades. I spent years wishing I could live in the empty warehouse where they shot the Love Will Tear Us Apart video and then, lo and behold, I spent years living in empty warehouses. Sonically вЂ“ for the way in which they melded traditional instruments with synthesisers and drum machines вЂ“ thematically and even aesthetically. I spent more time in high school listening to them than I did with my friends and family and the band are a huge influence. I remember hearing Atrocity Exhibition (which we all thought was called вЂњastro-city exhibitionвЂќ) and even before it was finished IвЂ™d fallen in love with Joy Division. In 1981, my friend Dave bought it and let me tape it. Moby on Joy DivisionвЂ™s influence on dance and electronic producersДЇrom the cover art to the Sylvia Plath-esque lyrics to the detuned pianos on side two, Closer is a perfect album. I always tell the band I rescued them вЂ“ left to their own devices, theyвЂ™d have ended up looking like Bon Jovi.

You see that look everywhere now and countless groups have asked me to replicate the bridge shot but you canвЂ™t. Music press photographers used black and white then because NME printed in monochrome, which gives those photos a timeless quality. But once they saw how they looked, they became the characters in the photographs on stage. When I shot Ian for NME in the overcoat, smoking, looking into the camera, the rest of them were trying to make him laugh.

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The photograph of them in the snow on the bridge in Hulme was unconventional вЂ“ the band were in the distance вЂ“ but it looked like Joy Division sounded: bleak, industrial, full of space, like postwar PoznaЕ„. They werenвЂ™t interested in having their photos taken, so you had to create more than a straight band shot. They looked east European and utilitarian.

We all wore our old school jumpers and trousers with army overcoats because we were skint. The lyrics were sombre, so I wanted to create some mythology around them. They looked like a prototype Frankie Goes to Hollywood, but once they became Joy Division the music changed dramatically. I first photographed Warsaw at the Electric Circus and Rafters, when they wore PVC and Hooky had a plastic cap. Kevin Cummins on Joy DivisionвЂ™s iconic photography ItвЂ™s poised between the light and dark and somehow outside of time, so 40 years on they are still up there. Equally, IвЂ™m afraid the idea of the вЂњtortured poetвЂќ and dying young is ingrained in the idea of the teenager, so IanвЂ™s suicide ticks all the boxes of a romantic hero, but itвЂ™s a mistake to think Joy Division were doomy. Ian wanted to go very deep, and the band went with him. Ian was вЂ“ to use that dreadful phrase вЂ“ for real, and that intensity was ferocious.

The only person who talked to me about his emotional state was Alan Erasmus who said: вЂњThereвЂ™s trouble.вЂќ When I saw them play at the Factory in April 1980 it was so intense I had to leave. I didnвЂ™t know about IanвЂ™s epilepsy at the time. That is something thatвЂ™s not infinitely reproducible. Performers вЂ“ and David Bowie is a good example вЂ“ know exactly what to give and what to withhold, but Ian Curtis didnвЂ™t have that stagecraft. I initially saw Joy Division when they were known as Warsaw in 1977, but the first time I thought they were something extraordinary was watching them supporting John Cooper Clarke in June 1979. Better than Farmville, anyway.Joy Division oral historian Jon Savage on the bandвЂ™s place in pop Script-O-Rama afterwards - because reading is good for your noodle. At least you'll have some Control quotes (or even a monologue or two) to annoy your coworkers with in the meantime, right?

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I know, I know, I still need to get the cast names in there and all that jazz, so if you have any corrections, feel free toДrop me a line. Transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of the movie to get the dialogue. This puppy is a transcript that was painstakingly Voila! Finally, the Control script is here for all you fans of the Ian Curtis Joy Division movie.

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