Tag: Peter Hook

Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of ‚Love Will Tear Us Apart’ and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, ‚Blue Monday’ among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester’s Hacienda club, Hook propelled the rise of acid house in the late 1980s, then suffered through its violent fall in the 1990s as gangs, drugs, greed and a hostile police force destroyed everything he and his friends had created. This is his memory of that era and ‚it’s far sadder, funnier, scarier and stranger’ than anyone has imagined.