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On September 26, 1980, Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris made their New York City debut, performing at Hurrah’s, a now-defunct nightclub on the Upper West Side. Had things turned out differently, the three musicians would have been joined onstage by singer Ian Curtis, and they’d have billed themselves as Joy Division. Unfortunately, Curtis had committed suicide four months earlier, leaving his band mates to carry on as New Order, a new group with all new material.
Three decades later and 50 blocks south, Hook finally gave Manhattan an evening of Joy Division music, performing Friday night with a new backing band, the Light, at Webster Hall. As he’s done since May in cities around the world, Hook played through the entirety of ‘Unknown Pleasures,’ Joy Division’s 1979 debut, sharing bass duties with his 20-year-old son, Jack, and taking Curtis’ place as frontman.
“Some things are too good to leave in the past,” a writer for the British rock magazine ‘NME’ said at the top of the set, as if to justify what Hook and company were about to do.
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