Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Presents the intensely personal writings of one of the most influential songwriter and performer of the late twentieth century. Interspersed with the lyrics are previously unpublished facsimile pages of Ian's notebooks, which throw his highly emotive lyrics into fascinating relief and cast light on the creative process of this singularly poetic songwriter. Ian Curtis committed suicide in 1980, on the eve of the band's first American tour. They were the songs too of Ian Curtis's inner tragedies, as he battled depression, epilepsy and debilitating stage fright. The songs of Joy Division, infused with the energy of punk but steeped in a resigned longing, were born of Manchester in the late seventies - a once flourishing industrial city in decline. So this is permanence, edited by Jon Savage with a foreword by Deborah Curtis, presents the intensely personal writings of one of the most enigmatic and influential songwriters and performers of the late twentieth century, Joy Division's Ian Curtis. It’s just an absolutely fantastic riff.Book Description Paperback. And again, if I say so myself, the song is lead by the bass. Destiny unfolded, I watched it slip away. Oh how I realised how I wanted time, Put into perspective, tried so hard to find, Just for one moment, thought Id found my way. A cloud hangs over me, marks every move, Deep in the memory, of what once was love. What once was innocence, turned on its side. But again it has the wonderful elements that you die for in a song – melodic drop downs and really rocky highs. So this is permanence, loves shattered pride. I mean, my favourite bass riff, funnily enough, is the bass riff to “Just My Imagination” by the Temptations, so it just shows you how strange they are.

“Twenty Four Hours” was such an individual and unique bass riff, and funnily enough I’ve noticed that over the years that it’s a song that a lot of bass players quote as being their favourite bass riff. In a 2017 interview with LouderSounds discussing his favorite basslines from his time in New Order and Joy Division, Peter Hook stated: A little bit like “Insight” on Unknown Pleasures, but a lot more accomplished. I really like the way it’s kind of moody and sort of snakes along then suddenly it gets really very spirited. I think it started with something that’s like a northern soul song, which we’ve kind of done on “Interzone”, which is the beat in the middle, then I just started playing half time and then we got the slow verse part for it.

It sounds really simple but that was one of the first one things we did after we finished Unknown Pleasures. You just took the cue from singing and it built up to the vocals. Drummer Stephen Morris spoke about the song in 2020: