By Jem Aswad
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Executive Editor, Music
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Photo: Martin O'Neill The career of Joy Division — the greatest band of the post-punk era of the late 1970s and early ‘80s — was tragically short, ended by the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis at the age of just 23: Not even a year passed between the June 1979 release of their iconic debut album, “Unknown Pleasures,” and his death. The band left behind just two studio albums and a dozen-odd singles and other stray tracks but their influence was vast, from the entire goth movement to Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead and Interpol (who were basically a Joy Division soundalike in their early years), to multiple samples in hip-hop songs.
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