Erin Broadley: Control: An Interview With Producer Orian Williams

ERIN BROADLEY: Control: An Interview With Producer Orian Williams

Before dawn on Sunday May 18, 1980 a 23-year-old Ian Curtis was found dead in his kitchen, having hung himself with a clothesline. His death signaled the end of Joy Division, the post-punk pioneers who later reformed as New Order, and in a way, signaled the end of poetic innocence in the burgeoning Manchester music scene. His wife, Deborah, had his lyrics “Love Will Tear Us Apart” inscribed on his memorial. Anton Corbijn’s CONTROL is their story. It’s a love story wrought by working class life in...