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Their first interview lasted two hours with the incredibly shy band barely saying anything. Paul Morley nearly ended up producing Joy Division’s first EP, but a hangover prevented him from being there. The name Joy Division itself came from the name of a pleasure house in Nazi Berlin in which German soldiers would often frequent. The band played their first gig on 29th May 1977 at the Electric Circus, on a bill which also included the Buzzcocks and John Cooper Clarke. The first embodiment of Joy Division were known as Warsaw, and took their name from the track ‘Warsawa’ on Bowie’s ‘Low’ album. Together they then began to play the clubs around Manchester. The Sex Pistols inspired a generation of young Mancunians to start up punk bands and it was at this gig that Ian Curtis met Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook. In 1976 Ian Curtis travelled to Manchester for a Sex Pistols gig, a defining moment in Manchester’s musical history. He liked to listen to people who may have suffered or pretended to have suffered in some way.” Deborah Curtis “He liked Iggy Pop because of the way he used to cut himself on stage. Their daughter Natalie was born on 16 April 1979. On 23 August 1975, Curtis married a school friend, Deborah Woodruff at St Thomas’ Church, Henbury. If he was exposed for too long his hands would turn crimson and swell up to resemble a huge pair of red rubber gloves. Suitably for a man idolised because of intensely introspective dark lyrics, Ian had a peculiar allergic reaction to the brightness of the sun’s rays. Ian was asked if he’d be willing to ‘entertain’ old ladies. He saw an advert in a newspaper asking for young men to apply and travelled down only to find out the job was for the position of a gigolo. He once had his stomach pumped after taking too many. After finishing his A-Levels, Ian thought about moving to London. Not one to miss an opportunity, he’d steal prescription drugs from residents and take them himself with mates. A young Ian was forced to do ‘social services’ by visiting the elderly as part of a school scheme. Ian Curtis was obsessed with music as a teenager but couldn’t afford the albums he wanted as well as the cigarettes and drink he’d taken a liking to, so often he would go to the indoor market in Macclesfield town centre and steal records underneath a large grey coat. The showman left his first stunt battered and bruised. After drumming up support from local children he donned a crash helmet and jumped from the roof of a garage.
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He first decided to be a stunt man and rigged up a wooden sledge as a landing pad.
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Ian Curtis was a performer from an early age. Although Joy Division were seen as a Manchester band, Ian Curtis was born in Macclesfield and grew up in the towns most deprived area, however he made it into the most prestigious grammar school in Macclesfield, The Kings School.