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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It turns out Joy Division wasn't the ensemble's initial moniker. Previously, they were called "Warsaw", reputedly influenced by a David Bowie track on his album Low. Curtis was a huge Bowie fan ...

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 ...

You never thought about if it ended.” “My book is about all the bits before Joy Division and Warsaw. It’s about how you end up wanting to be in a band in the first place. My dad was into ...