Song of the day for April 18, 2024
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Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division is today’s featured song.
On this day in 1991, British record producer Martin Hannett died aged 42. His rise to fame began via his work with the post-punk band Joy Division in the late 70s. He went on to produce U2 and The Psychedelic Furs as well as later Mancunian bands New Order, Happy Mondays, and The Smiths.
“Love Will Tear Us Apart” was written about Ian Curtis’ troubled relationship with his wife, Deborah Woodruff, whom he married in August 1975. Additionally, it deals with his own struggles with epilepsy, which he was diagnosed with in 1979, and the overwhelming stress of holding down a day job and his growing career as a singer.
At a Joy Division gig in October 1979, Curtis met Belgian journalist and music promoter Annik Honoré and the two began a relationship, which caused further distress between Curtis and Woodruff.
The song was released in June 1980 as a non-album single. The single was released the month after his suicide.
