Without ever having become a technically flawless singer, Bernard Sumner now embodies New Order's more accessible vision, while Peter Hook has become the guardian of the Joy Division temple.

New Order's 1983 track 'Blue Monday' highlights the fusion of dance rhythms with melancholic undertones. The song's ...

Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook were inspired by a local Sex Pistols gig to gather guitars together and went looking for a singer. Finding Ian Curtis - and later Stephen Morris on drums - they ...

Taylor Parkes talks to the formidable guitarist about why he's been happy since The Smiths just doing a bit of this and a bit of that Former Joy Division and New Order guitarist Bernard Sumner talks ...

But the catharsis felt on Blue Monday didn’t seem like a way for Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris to simply move on, but instead undergo a complete reinvention. The early ‘80s was ...