Originally, the group went by "Warsaw" influenced by a David Bowie ... In 1978, they adopted the title "Joy Division", a name derived from the prostitution wings in Nazi concentration camps ...

"Warsaw," from whence 3 One G cribbed its name. Scattered throughout were a few deep-cut nuggets, like the Joy Division version of "Ceremony," later re-recorded by New Order (the post-Curtis band ...

And yet it is here that they are closest to The Stooges: ‘Twenty Four Hours’ is the third time Joy Division ripped off the main riff to ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’, and the truest to the spirit of the ...

It turns out Joy Division wasn't the group's original moniker. They initially went by "Warsaw", which was a nod to a David Bowie track from his album Low. Curtis was a massive Bowie fan and ...

The album portion opened with the tense, moody “Warsaw,” which is also the first song found on the 1978 Joy Division EP “An Ideal for Living.” (Warsaw also happens to be Joy Division’s ...

Inspired by seeing the Sex Pistols, the core members of Joy Division formed as Warsaw in spring 1977. Their initial stage wear was as unformed and lumpish as their first material: caught somewhere ...

In need of a new name after Warsaw was no longer workable, the band decided to stick with something with World War II associations and chose Joy Division, after a well-known prostitution wing ...

Even in their earliest incarnation, Joy Division wanted to push things forward. The very fact that they initially called themselves Warsaw in reference to David Bowie’s ambient experiment ‘War ...

Featuring the participation of all surviving members, this film examines Joy Division's story through unseen live performance footage, personal photos, period films and audiotapes. Show more On ...

SM: Meeting Rob Gretton was really important. He saw us as Warsaw and then he saw us as Joy Division and he thought we were fantastic. He was a grown-up and we were a bunch of stupid kids.