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1980 unmarried by Joy Division

"Dearest Will Tear Us Apart"
Love Will Tear Us Apart song.jpg

vii" cover
Single by Joy Sectionalization
B-side "These Days"
Released June 1980 (1980-06) [1]
Recorded March 1980[2]
Studio Strawberry, Stockport[3]
Genre Post-punk[4]
Length 3:xviii
Label Factory
Songwriter(s)
  • Ian Curtis
  • Peter Hook
  • Stephen Morris
  • Bernard Sumner
Producer(s)
  • Martin Hannett
  • Joy Division
Joy Division British singles and EPs singles chronology
"Komakino"
(1980) 		"Love Will Tear Us Apart"
(1980) 		"Temper"
(1980)
Alternative cover
12" cover

12" embrace
Music video
"Love Volition Tear Us Autonomously" on YouTube

"Beloved Volition Tear Us Apart" is a song by English rock band Joy Division, released in June 1980 as a non-album single. Its lyrics were inspired by pb singer Ian Curtis'due south marital problems and struggles with epilepsy.[v] The single was released the calendar month after his suicide.

The song was certified platinum in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, selling over 600,000 copies, and has an ongoing legacy as a defining vocal of the era. In 2002, NME named "Beloved Volition Tear United states Apart" equally the greatest unmarried of all time, while Rolling Stone, in 2004 and 2011, named it one of the 500 best songs ever.

Background [edit]

"Love Volition Tear U.s.a. Apart" was written nigh Ian Curtis' troubled relationship with his wife, Deborah Woodruff, whom he married in August 1975. Additionally, information technology deals with his own struggles with epilepsy, which he was diagnosed with in 1979, and the overwhelming stress of holding down a day task and his growing career as a singer.[6]

At a Joy Division gig in October 1979, Curtis met Belgian journalist and music promoter Annik Honoré and the two began a relationship, which acquired further distress between Curtis and Woodruff.[six] [seven]

Speaking near her relationship with Curtis in a 2010 interview with Belgian magazine supplement Focus, Honoré said:

It was a completely pure and platonic relationship, very kittenish, very chaste… I did non have a sexual relationship with Ian, he was on medication, which rendered it a non-physical relationship. I am then fed up that people question my word or his: people can say any they want, but I am the only person to accept his letters… One of his letters says that the relationship with his wife Deborah had already finished prior to u.s. coming together each other.[8]

Recording [edit]

Joy Partition first recorded "Love Will Tear United states Apart" at Pennine Studios, Oldham, on viii January 1980, along with the B-side, "These Days". This version was similar to the version the band played live. However, vocaliser Ian Curtis and producer Martin Hannett disliked the results and the ring reconvened at Strawberry Studios, Stockport in March to re-tape information technology.[3] Drummer Stephen Morris recalled:

Martin Hannett played one of his heed games when we were recording it – it sounds similar he was a tyrant, but he wasn't, he was nice. We had this one battle where information technology was well-nigh midnight and I said, "Is it all right if I go home, Martin – it'south been a long day?" And he said [whispers], "OK... you go domicile". So I went back to the flat. Just got to slumber and the phone rings. "Martin wants you to come up back and practice the snare drum". At four in the forenoon! I said, "What's wrong with the snare drum!?" So every time I hear "Dear Will Tear U.s. Apart", I grit my teeth and remember myself shouting downwardly the phone, "YOU Bastard!" ... I can feel the anger in information technology even now. It'south a bang-up song and it's a great production, just I practise get anguished every fourth dimension I hear it.[ix]

The guitar on the recording, a 12-string Eko guitar, was played past Bernard Sumner.[10] While Curtis by and large did not play guitar, to perform the song alive, the ring taught him how to strum a D major chord. Sumner said:

Ian didn't really want to play guitar, only for some reason we wanted him to play it. I can't remember the reason at present... We showed him how to play D and we wrote a song. I wonder if that'south why we wrote "Love Will Tear U.s. Apart", you lot could drone a D through it. I remember he played information technology live because I was playing keyboards.[10]

While Joy Division were recording, U2 were in the studio to encounter Hannett near producing their single "11 O'Clock Tick Tock". U2 singer Bono said of the encounter:

Talking to Ian Curtis is... or was a strange feel because he'due south very warm... he talked—it was like two people within of him—he talked very light, and he talked very well-mannered, and very polite. But when he got behind the microphone he really surged forth; there was another energy. It seemed like he was simply two people and, yous know, "Love Will Tear Usa Apart", it was like [when] that record was released... it was like, as if, at that place were the personalities, separate; at that place they were, torn apart.[11]

Releases [edit]

It was first recorded for a John Skin session in November 1979, and then re-recorded in Jan 1980 and March 1980. It is the latter version that appears on the 1988 Substance album. The January 1980 version, which has become known equally the "Pennine version", originally appeared every bit one of the single's B-sides.

"Beloved Will Tear Us Apart" became Joy Division'south first chart hitting, reaching number 13 in the Great britain Singles Nautical chart.[12] The following month, the single topped the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Indie Chart.[13] The song also peaked at number 42 on the Billboard disco chart in October 1980.[xiv] "Love Will Tear United states Apart" too reached number 1 in New Zealand in June 1981.[15]

The single was re-released in 1983 and reached number xix on the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland charts[16] and number 3 in New Zealand during March 1984.[fifteen] In 1985, the 7" single was released in Poland by Tonpress in different sleeve under licence from Factory and sold over 20,000 copies.[17] In Nov 1988, it made ane more Acme 40 appearance in New Zealand, peaking at number 39.[15]

Cover photo [edit]

Co-ordinate to Curtis'southward wife Deborah, to create the single cover photograph, the song championship was etched upon a sail of metal; this was aged with acid and exposed to the weather to create the appearance of a rock slab.[18] For the 12" version of the single, a photo of a grieving affections on the Ribaudo family tomb in Genoa's Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno (sculpted by Onorato Toso c. 1910) was used. The photo was taken by Bernard Pierre Wolff in 1978.[19]

Music video [edit]

The video was shot by the band themselves on 25 Apr 1980[twenty] as they rehearsed the song at T. J. Davidson'southward studio, in Knott Factory, Manchester urban center center, where the band had previously apposite during the early on days of their career. At the start of the video, the door that opens and shuts is carved with Ian Curtis' name; reportedly this was the beginning of an abusive message (the residue later erased) carved into the door.

Due to poor production, the video's color is 'browned out' at some points. As well, as the track recorded during the recording of the video was poor, it was replaced with the single-edit recording of the song by the ring'south tape company in Commonwealth of australia, leading to problems with the synchronisation of music and video. This edited version of the music video would later on become the official version due to the improvement of sound quality.

This was the only promotional video the ring ever produced equally Ian Curtis hanged himself three weeks after the video was recorded.[21]

Legacy [edit]

A grey stone with "Ian Curtis, 18-5-80, Love Will Tear Us Apart" carved into it in block letters

Ian Curtis's grave marker, laid in 2008 to replace a similarly inscribed ane stolen earlier that year

"Love Will Tear The states Apart" was named NME Single of the Year in 1980,[22] and was listed equally the best single of all time past NME in 2002.

In May 2007, NME placed it at number 19 in its listing of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever, 1 place alee of another Joy Partitioning song, "Transmission". The song is besides listed as being ane of the 5 best indie songs of all time in the "All Time Indie Peak 50".[23]

In 2004, the song was listed by Rolling Stone magazine at number 179 in its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".[24] In 2011, the song was listed at number 181.[25] In the 2021 update of the list, information technology had risen to 41.[26]

The song reached number 1 in the inaugural Triple J Hottest 100 music poll of 1989 and once more in 1990. When being interviewed for New Gild Story, Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys stated that "Love Volition Tear Us Apart" was his favourite pop vocal of all time. At Christmas 2011, listeners of Dublin's Phantom FM voted "Love Will Tear Us Apart" equally their favourite song of all time. Furthermore, in 2012, in celebration of the NME 's 60th anniversary, a list of the 100 Greatest Songs of NME 'due south Lifetime was compiled, and the listing was topped by "Dear Volition Tear United states Apart". Serbian rock musician, announcer and writer Dejan Cukić wrote about "Dearest Volition Tear United states of america Apart" as ane of the 45 songs that changed history of pop music in his 2007 volume 45 obrtaja: Priče o pesmama. In 2015, the online magazine Pitchfork ranked "Love Volition Tear U.s. Apart" seventh on its list of the "200 all-time songs of the 1980s".[27]

Following Curtis'due south suicide, his wife Deborah had the phrase "Love Will Tear Us Apart" inscribed on his memorial stone.[28]

In June 2013, Mighty Box Games released Volition Love Tear United states Autonomously?, a browser-based video game that adapts every verse of the song into a level.[29]

Track list [edit]

Side A
No. Championship Length
1. "Love Will Tear Us Autonomously" 3:18
Side B
No. Title Length
1. "These Days" 3:21
ii. "Love Will Tear Us Autonomously (Pennine version)[a]" three:06
1995 cassette edition
No. Championship Length
1. "Honey Will Tear The states Apart" (radio version) 3:38
2. "Love Will Tear Us Autonomously" (original version) three:25
1995 12" edition
No. Title Length
ane. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (original version) 3:25
two. "Beloved Will Tear Us Apart" (radio version) 3:38
three. "Love Will Tear Us Autonomously" (Arthur Baker remix) 4:12
4. "Atmosphere" (original Hannett 12") 4:08
1995 CD one edition
No. Title Length
one. "Honey Will Tear United states of america Apart" (radio version) 3:38
ii. "Love Volition Tear Us Autonomously" (original version) 3:25
3. "These Days" 3:25
4. "Manual" (live) 3:44
1995 CD ii edition
No. Title Length
1. "Love Will Tear United states Apart" (original version) 3:18
ii. "Love Will Tear The states Autonomously '95" (radio version) 3:38
3. "Atmosphere" 4:08
  1. ^ Not listed on original 7" single and not listed as being alternate version where it was; the "Pennine version" label did non come up into use until years after.
  • Rail 1 recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, early March 1980
  • Tracks 2 and iii recorded at Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham, viii January 1980
  • In her biography Touching from a Altitude, Deborah Curtis explains that the reason for the two versions of the song, one on each side, was a issue of Curtis'southward slightly different singing in each one; one song take was allegedly done when other band members told Curtis to sing "like Frank Sinatra".
  • Like other Joy Division releases, including Transmission and An Ideal For Living, the 7" and 12" versions share the aforementioned tracks, only have different sleeves.

Charts [edit]

Weekly charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Cover versions [edit]

Chuzpe version [edit]

Chuzpe recorded a cover version on the vocal in 1980, which peaked at No. eight in Austria.[38]

Chart (1981) Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Peak 40)[38] 8

Paul Young version [edit]

English singer Paul Immature covered "Dear Will Tear Us Apart" in 1984.

Chart (1984) Summit
position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flemish region)[39] 9
Germany (Official German Charts)[40] 40
Netherlands (Dutch Peak 40)[41] 25
Netherlands (Unmarried Acme 100)[42] nine

Swans version [edit]

Love Will Tear United states Autonomously
SwansLWTUAred.jpg
EP by

Swans
Released 1988
Length 16:56
Label Product Inc.
Producer Michael Gira
Swans chronology
Children of God
(1987) 		Dear Will Tear Us Autonomously
(1988) 		Feel Good Now
(1988)

Love Will Tear Us Apart is the fourth EP by the New York band Swans, its 9th release. It features a cover version of the Joy Division song. Information technology was originally released in two different versions with Jarboe (black sleeve) and Gira (ruby-red sleeve) providing vocals, forth with two semi-acoustic versions of songs from their 1987 LP Children of God.

EP runway listing [edit]

Side A
No. Championship Length
1. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" 3:40
2. "Trust Me" 3:07
Side B
No. Title Length
1. "Our Love Lies" half-dozen:56

Charts [edit]

Chart (1988) Summit
position
UK Singles (OCC)[43] 85
U.k. Indie Chart[44] 2

Honeyroot version [edit]

Honeyroot reached the United kingdom Singles Chart in May 2005 with their ambient cover of the vocal.[45]

Chart (2005) Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC)[46] 70

Encounter also [edit]

  • Joy Sectionalisation discography
  • List of number-one singles from the 1980s (New Zealand)

References [edit]

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  2. ^ Curtis, Deborah (2005) [1995]. Touching from a Altitude: Ian Curtis and Joy Division. Faber and Faber. p. 141. ISBN978-0-571-17445-4.
  3. ^ a b "Joy Sectionalisation studio sessions". Joydiv.org . Retrieved 2 June 2013.
  4. ^ Friskics-Warren, Neb (2005). I'll Accept You There: Pop Music and the Urge for Transcendence. Continuum. p. 98. ISBN0-8264-1700-0. the cascading melody of Joy Division's sublimely gloomy mail service-punk anthem, 'Honey Will Tear U.s.a. Apart'
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  6. ^ a b "What is Joy Division'due south Love Will Tear Us Autonomously about?". Radio X. twenty June 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  7. ^ "Annik Honoré, the inspiration for "Love Will Tear Us Apart", dies aged 56". Uncut. iv July 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  8. ^ Cornet, Philippe (14 June 2010). "Annik Honoré: retour sur son histoire fulgurante avec Ian Curtis de Joy Division" [Annik Honoré: a look back at her dazzling history with Ian Curtis of Joy Division]. Focus (in French). Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  9. ^ Gale, Lee (17 December 2010). "An Ideal for Reliving". GQ. New York City. Retrieved ane June 2013.
  10. ^ a b Graham, Pat (2011). Instrument. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. p. 40. ISBN978-i-4521-0895-7.
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  12. ^ a b "Official Singles Chart Tiptop 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 15 Feb 2018.
  13. ^ a b "Indie Hits". Archived from the original on 16 October 2007 – via Cherry Ruddy Records.
  14. ^ a b "Disco Pinnacle 100". Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 43. 25 October 1980. p. 33. ISSN 0006-2510.
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  17. ^ Buda, Andrzej (2006). Historia rocka, popu i hip-hopu – według krytyków: 1974–2000 (in Polish). Wydawn. Niezależne (Independent editors). ISBN83-915272-8-Ten.
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  19. ^ "Bernard Pierre Wolff: Genova, Italy, 1978: Il Staglieno". Enkiri.com. 4 Dec 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
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  21. ^ Hook, Peter (2012). Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN978-0-06-222258-9.
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  23. ^ "All Fourth dimension Indie Top 50". 23 Indie Street . Retrieved xi Oct 2017.
  24. ^ "The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension (1-500)". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 20 August 2006.
  25. ^ "500 Greatest Songs of All Time > 181 – Joy Division, 'Love Will Tear United states Apart'". Rolling Stone. 7 April 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  26. ^ "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Roling Stone. fifteen September 2021. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  27. ^ Staff (24 August 2015). "The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s". Pitchfork . Retrieved 28 February 2018.
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  29. ^ Farokhmanesh, Megan (iii June 2013). "Volition Love Tear Us Apart? transforms Joy Partition vocal into a game". Polygon. Vocalisation Media. Archived from the original on 8 June 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  30. ^ "Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – Chart POSITIONS PRE 1989". Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien. Archived from the original on xx October 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
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  35. ^ "Terminate of Yr Charts 1984". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  36. ^ "Italian single certifications – Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Autonomously" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 31 Dec 2019. Select "2019" in the "Anno" drib-down menu. Select "Love Volition Tear U.s.a. Apart" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Singoli" under "Sezione".
  37. ^ "British unmarried certifications – Joy Partition – Love Will Tear Us Apart". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 9 Baronial 2019. Select singles in the Format field.Select Platinum in the Certification field.Type Love Volition Tear U.s.a. Autonomously in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  38. ^ a b "Chuzpe – Love Will Tear Us Apart" (in High german). Ö3 Austria Height 40. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  39. ^ "Paul Young – Dearest Will Tear Us Apart" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved xvi July 2013.
  40. ^ "Paul Immature – Love Volition Tear United states Apart" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  41. ^ "Nederlandse Pinnacle 40 – Paul Young - Dear Volition Tear U.s.a. Apart" (in Dutch). Dutch Superlative 40. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
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External links [edit]

  • "Love Will Tear Us Autonomously" official music video on YouTube
  • ""Love Volition Tear Us Autonomously" (Joy Division'south version)" at Discogs (list of releases)
  • ""Dearest Volition Tear Usa Apart" (Swans version)" at Discogs (list of releases)
  • Usage in moving picture and idiot box: run into "Joy Division. Soundtrack. 'Love Volition Tear Us Autonomously'" at IMDb
  • Accolades archived at Acclaimed Music

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