![]() 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 Interspersed with the lyrics are previously unpublished facsimile pages of Ian's notebooks, which throw his highly emotive lyrics into fascinating relief and cast light on the creative process of this singularly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. So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks is an incredible visual collection of the personal writings of musical icon Ian Curtis. Rather, its members seemed profoundly and genuinely moved by the Holocaust. They were the songs too of Ian Curtis's inner tragedies, as he battled depression, epilepsy and debilitating stage fright. In the introduction to So This Is Permanence, a collection of the writings of the late singer Ian Curtis, the book’s editor, Jon Savage asserts that Joy Division did not exploit the Nazi era, as so many of its punk peers did. ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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