![]() ![]() And Ian's incredible sensitivity, remarked on by everyone who knew him, only surfaces occasionally here. But strangely, I can hardly recall the word "depression" occurring in the text, although Ian's lyrics are saturated with despair. Of course, it's clear that Ian could be a difficult person. Deborah is angry about Ian's mercurial moods, his controlling behavior, his absences, his emotional remoteness from both her and their daughter, his drug use, and his infidelity. On May 18, 1980, the night before he was scheduled to leave on Joy Division's first US tour, Ian Curtis committed suicide. Under the enforced separation of touring and the pressures of Ian's newly diagnosed epilepsy, his ongoing relationship with another woman, and the bands' growing fame, Deborah and Ian drifted further apart. Deborah became pregnant with their daughter Natalie in mid-1978, just as Joy Division released its first record (the four-song EP An Ideal for Living), and gave birth in April 1979, just two months before the release of the band's first full-length album ( Unknown Pleasures). She and Ian married in 1975, while they were still teenagers. Touching from a Distance (Faber, 2007, originally published 1995) is Deborah Curtis' memoir of her life with Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division. ![]()
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