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Ian Curtis was the lead singer and lyricist for post-punk Joy Division. Curtis, the band’s front man, presents an ideal archetype to closely examine the rapid evolution and rupture, via image, of mediated memory and speed of technology. Born in Manchester in 1956, Curtis lived in and around Macclesfield for the entirety of his life. Though a good student, Curtis always wanted to be a part of the music business, his youthful idols included Iggy Pop, David Bowie and the Velvet Underground. A fateful concert, the Sex Pistols at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall in 1976, gave Curtis the confidence that he, too, could perform in a band.1
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© 2014 Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
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Bickerdike, J.O. (2014). Chapter 2. In: Fandom, Image and Authenticity. Pop Music, Culture and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137393531_3
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