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"There isn&amp;apos;t much video footage of Joy Division out there. When frontman Ian Curtis committed suicide on May 18th, 1980, the group had only released one album, and they hadn&amp;apos;t once performed anywhere outside of Europe. Needless to say, the band&amp;apos;s legacy has grown with each passing year and it&amp;apos;s hard to walk down the streets of New York these days without seeing someone wearing an Unknown Pleasures&amp;#xA0;T-shirt. Here&amp;apos;s an incredible video of the group performing &amp;quot;Transmission&amp;quot; on the BBC2 program Something Else on September 15th, 1979. The video begins with English performance poet John Cooper Clarke reciting his famous work &amp;quot;Evidently Chickentown.&amp;quot;\r\nCurtis killed himself just eight months after this taping. At the time the group were on the verge of heading to America for their first stateside tour. &amp;quot;On Sunday morning I was turning my trousers up,&amp;quot; Joy Division drummer Stephen Morris told Rolling Stone in 1983. &amp;quot;Monday I was screaming.&amp;quot; The group famously carried on as New Order. &amp;quot;There&amp;apos;s life and there&amp;apos;s death,&amp;quot; Morris said. &amp;quot;We are still alive, so we thought we&amp;apos;d carry on doing it.&amp;quot;\r\nNew Order reformed in 1998 after a five-year hiatus and even started adding Joy Division songs to their live sets, but internal tensions led to another split in 2007. They&amp;apos;re back on the road now, minus bassist Peter Hook, who has spent the last couple of years playing Joy Division songs with a new group. It&amp;apos;s a very sad state of affairs for a group that had survived so much.&amp;#xA0;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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