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Joy Division

Love Will Tear Us Apart

1980 · via Joy Division

Joy Division’s 1980 recording of “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is the earliest release on file. Ian Curtis of Joy Division is credited as its writer. Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner are on the credit through New Order’s 1998 version. Also recorded by New Order (released 1998), Paul Young (released 1983) and Peter Hook & the Light (released 2015), among 403 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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Curtis, Hook, Morris and Sumner wrote this one together, and The Cure later took a turn at it. Play the Joy Division side first, then hear what another band found in it.

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Credited writer: Ian Curtis.

Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner are on the credit through New Order’s 1998 version.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1980.

Other recordings on file · first release year

403 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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