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Inside joy division6/5/2023 ![]() “It featured chord buttons, just press to play a chord. “It was a Woolworth’s Winfield brown Bakelite plastic reed organ,” drummer Stephen Morris wrote in his memoir, Record Play Pause. Originally known as Chance, Atmosphere was first conceived after the band acquired a new – if rather less than hi-tech – bit of kit from guitarist Bernard Sumner’s grandmother. Joy Division wrote Atmosphere in the early summer of 1979: a fertile creative spell which also spawned future Closer classics such as Atrocity Exhibition and Colony. This came during a period when we were continually writing great songs, so it didn’t seem like such a big deal to be honest.” Having said that, it didn’t bother us at the time. ![]() “It was a limited edition that we never got any money for. ![]() “The tracks Throbbing Gristle previously put on their Sordide Sentimental EP were never going anywhere else, but we put two of our best songs on ,” bassist Peter Hook recalled in his book, Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division. “We were continually writing great songs” ![]()
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