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In a bar in the East End of London, this petite, shy woman sitting face to face with me is slightly omitted Be drunk. She started to speak louder, and she seemed more straightforward at the moment than the timid and shy person I saw two hours ago. "I actually don't listen to Joy Division very much," she said. "If it wasn't my father's singing, I might listen. Who would listen to their father's singing? It's like watching your father dance. It's embarrassing to death. Your father has never been cool, has he?"
This young woman is Natalie Curtis, 26 years old, the daughter of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis. Her father committed suicide 25 years ago this month. If someone else said that Ian Curtis was not cool enough, he would definitely be ridiculed as a cliché with no knowledge of pop culture. From a cultural or musical point of view, perhaps apart from Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, no one in modern rock history is more important than Ian Curtis. His death shook the entire music industry and plunged thousands of music fans into deep grief.
As the leader of Joy Division, Curtis is not only the most glamorous, eye-catching and disturbing post-punk artist, he is also the author of shockingly beautiful, sensitive and melancholic lyrics. This lyrics Perhaps it heralded his death. Joy Division’s two studio albums Unknown Pleasures and Closer are both classics; the band’s most famous song Love Will Tear Us Apart was only listed as the best song of the past 25 years on the song poster of Robbie Williams’ Angels. This result is like a shameless old actor who used Joy Division's classic harmony at the end of his own singing, which embarrassed him himself.
Joy Division has also deeply influenced a series of bands: U2’s Bono admitted that this Manchester band greatly inspired his music. If there were no Joy Division and the post-Curtis-style band New Order, Depeche would not have appeared. Mode, the Pet Shop Boys, Franz Ferdinand and the Killers, etc.
Curtis' daughter Natalie was only 1 year old when her father was hanged in the house in Macclesfield where he lived with his wife, Natalie's mother Deborah. When I first met Natalie, I was amazed at how similar she was to her father. The plump lips, pointed nose, and tight blue eyes all come directly from Ian's genetics.
Kevin Cummins, the photographer who took many iconic photos for Joy Division, brought Natalie to his knees as his assistant. When Kevin gave a speech in Manchester City, he saw her for the first time, and his reaction was equally shocked, "I just finished the speech, this girl came up to me and said,'Do you have a picture of my dad smiling?' I watched. She thought to herself,'You don't have to tell me who you are'".
Cummins' straight black and white photos are Natalie's first contact with her father. "Kevin's photo is the first thing I have seen since I can remember. I saw two or three. Somehow, I know it was my dad, but I don't know what he was doing in the photo. I vaguely remember me at the time. Thinking, why didn’t he laugh? What happened to him? As I grew up, I realized that it was just an image that the band wanted to show to the outside world."
Natalie said that since the age of 8 she felt about the way her father died. curious. "Until the age of 8, I was not curious about his death. He just died-I never thought that a person could die in many ways." So she asked her mother. "She told me that he died of a certain disease such as cancer. I told her my curiosity, and then she told me the truth."
Did you get angry with him when you learned the truth?
"I was never angry with him when I was a kid. I just want to know his stories. I want to know about his happy things, those interesting things. From then on, when my mother started to write the book about Dad (" Touching From a Distance, a no-holds-barred depiction of a driven, sometimes unpleasant man, tortured by epileptic fits "Reserved Notes")", I am determined to learn more. So, I read some books about Joy Division. Most of these books mentioned "he committed suicide due to marital problems." I know these are rubbish nonsense. No one will kill himself because of a failed marriage-they will only try to redeem or restart another relationship. My dad is a f*****, my dad is depressed and depressed, his severe epilepsy makes him very painful. "
Cummins, the man who had a fatherly influence on Natalie, touched her lightly, "That said, you have never been angry with your dad because of his suicide." "
Natalie took a deep breath." I really thought, 'He's an idiot', not only because he let go away from me, but because he was so good before his death leaves only so little music. But being a rock star is not good for his health-I mean touring and alcoholism. He is fully aware that alcohol will invalidate his epilepsy drugs. "But when you're in a successful band, it's hard to refuse this kind of life on the road.
"Yes, I understand, that kind of life is too exciting, it makes people have no time to think,'Oh, I'm a Patients, alcohol and lack of sleep are the first causes of these diseases, and they will aggravate my condition'. But when he decided that he had lived enough of this life, he could have replaced this life by writing books. He doesn't need to return to that kind of nine-to-five life. He didn't have to end his life. "
Ian Curtis committed suicide on the eve of his American tour on May 18, 1980. This tour will allow Joy Division to enter the world's most profitable market. His musical heritage is small but far-reaching. His personal heritage is unremarkable. His daughter is a smart girl with a tough personality. She put on a shy coat on top of her cold personality. She was extremely proud of her father and completely ignored the way he died.
"Now, depression is not so taboo in front of me, but people still avoid talking to me about suicide. I remember when a friend of mine committed suicide a few years ago, no one wanted to talk about it in my face. It really makes me angry. I think if suicide is a good choice for my father, then it will be a good choice for anyone."
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