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Station

Joy Division

1976 to 1980 · on Post-punk

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Active years

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The journey

1970197519801985Post-punk1979
  1. 1979Post-punk · Unknown Pleasures

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Platform

  1. Post-punk1979 to 1980

    Unknown Pleasures

    Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Closer (1980), with Martin Hannett's production, are post-punk at its most influential: space, dread and rhythm in place of punk's speed.

    Key album: Unknown Pleasures, 1979

    Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Joy Division (opens in a new tab)

Line-ups

Joy Division has a line-up of its own: Joy Division, 1976 to 1980, every member and spell as a line diagram.

Connections

Influenced bySex Pistols

The line

Post-punk (Rock family)

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Joy Division (opens in a new tab)
  2. Holly George-Warren and Patricia Romanowski (editors), The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Fireside, 2001

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The Metro Map of Music, ‘Joy Division: station’, /stations/joy-division.