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1980 single past Joy Division

"Love Will Tear United states of america Apart"
7" cover
Single past Joy Division
B-side	"These Days"
Released	June 1980 (1980-06) [1]
Recorded	March 1980[2]
Studio	Strawberry, Stockport[3]
Genre	Postal service-punk[4]
Length	three:xviii
Label	Manufactory
Songwriter(s)	Ian Curtis Peter Hook Stephen Morris Bernard Sumner
Producer(southward)	Martin Hannett Joy Partitioning
Joy Partition British singles and EPs singles chronology
"Komakino" (1980) "Beloved Volition Tear Us Autonomously" (1980) "Atmosphere" (1980)
Alternative cover
12" encompass
Music video
"Love Volition Tear The states Autonomously" on YouTube

"Love Volition Tear Us Apart" is a song by English rock band Joy Division, released in June 1980 as a non-album unmarried. Its lyrics were inspired by lead vocaliser Ian Curtis's marital bug and struggles with epilepsy.^[5] The unmarried was released the calendar month after his suicide.

The song was certified platinum in the UK, selling over 600,000 copies, and has an ongoing legacy equally a defining song of the era. In 2002, NME named "Dearest Will Tear The states Autonomously" as the greatest single of all time, while Rolling Stone, in 2004 and 2011, named it one of the 500 best songs ever.

Background [edit]

"Love Will Tear Us Apart" was written well-nigh Ian Curtis' troubled relationship with his married woman, Deborah Woodruff, whom he married in Baronial 1975. Additionally, it deals with his own struggles with epilepsy, which he was diagnosed with in 1979, and the overwhelming stress of property down a twenty-four hour period chore and his growing career as a vocaliser.^[6]

At a Joy Segmentation gig in October 1979, Curtis met Belgian announcer and music promoter Annik Honoré and the two began a relationship, which caused further distress between Curtis and Woodruff.^{[6] [7]}

Speaking nearly her human relationship with Curtis in a 2010 interview with Belgian magazine supplement Focus, Honoré said:

It was a completely pure and platonic relationship, very kittenish, very celibate… I did not have a sexual relationship with Ian, he was on medication, which rendered it a non-physical relationship. I am and then fed up that people question my give-and-take or his: people tin can say whatever they want, but I am the only person to have his letters… Ane of his messages says that the relationship with his wife Deborah had already finished prior to united states meeting each other.^[8]

Recording [edit]

Joy Segmentation first recorded "Love Volition Tear Us Apart" at Pennine Studios, Oldham, on eight January 1980, along with the B-side, "These Days". This version was like to the version the band played alive. Even so, singer Ian Curtis and producer Martin Hannett disliked the results and the band reconvened at Strawberry Studios, Stockport in March to re-record it.^[3] Drummer Stephen Morris recalled:

Martin Hannett played i of his mind games when we were recording it – information technology sounds similar he was a tyrant, just he wasn't, he was nice. Nosotros had this one boxing where it was near midnight and I said, "Is it all right if I go home, Martin – it'south been a long day?" And he said [whispers], "OK... you go home". So I went back to the flat. Just got to slumber and the phone rings. "Martin wants y'all to come dorsum and practice the snare pulsate". At 4 in the morning! I said, "What'southward incorrect with the snare drum!?" And so every time I hear "Beloved Will Tear Us Autonomously", I dust my teeth and think myself shouting downwards the phone, "YOU BASTARD!" ... I can feel the anger in it even now. It's a great song and information technology's a great product, but I do get anguished every time I hear information technology.^[nine]

The guitar on the recording, a 12-string Eko guitar, was played past Bernard Sumner.^[10] While Curtis generally did not play guitar, to perform the song live, the band taught him how to strum a D major chord. Sumner said:

Ian didn't actually want to play guitar, only for some reason nosotros wanted him to play it. I tin can't call up the reason now... Nosotros showed him how to play D and we wrote a song. I wonder if that'southward why nosotros wrote "Dearest Volition Tear Us Apart", you could drone a D through it. I think he played it alive because I was playing keyboards.^[ten]

While Joy Segmentation were recording, U2 were in the studio to see Hannett nearly producing their single "eleven O'Clock Tick Tock". U2 vocalizer Bono said of the meet:

Talking to Ian Curtis is... or was a foreign experience because he's very warm... he talked—it was like two people inside of him—he talked very light, and he talked very well-mannered, and very polite. But when he got behind the microphone he really surged along; there was another free energy. Information technology seemed similar he was merely 2 people and, you know, "Beloved Will Tear Us Apart", it was similar [when] that tape was released... it was like, every bit if, there were the personalities, separate; there they were, torn apart.^[11]

Releases [edit]

It was commencement recorded for a John Peel session in November 1979, then re-recorded in January 1980 and March 1980. It is the latter version that appears on the 1988 Substance album. The January 1980 version, which has become known as the "Pennine version", originally appeared every bit one of the single's B-sides.

"Dearest Volition Tear United states of america Apart" became Joy Partitioning's first nautical chart hit, reaching number 13 in the UK Singles Nautical chart.^[12] The following calendar month, the unmarried topped the Great britain Indie Nautical chart.^[thirteen] The song also peaked at number 42 on the Billboard disco chart in Oct 1980.^[xiv] "Honey Will Tear Usa Apart" also reached number i in New Zealand in June 1981.^[15]

The single was re-released in 1983 and reached number xix on the UK charts^[16] and number three in New Zealand during March 1984.^[15] In 1985, the 7" single was released in Poland by Tonpress in different sleeve under licence from Manufactory and sold over 20,000 copies.^[17] In November 1988, it made one more Peak 40 appearance in New Zealand, peaking at number 39.^[15]

Cover photo [edit]

According to Curtis's wife Deborah, to create the unmarried cover photo, the vocal title was etched upon a sheet of metal; this was anile with acid and exposed to the atmospheric condition to create the appearance of a stone slab.^[18] For the 12" version of the single, a photograph of a grieving angel on the Ribaudo family tomb in Genoa'southward Awe-inspiring Cemetery of Staglieno (sculpted by Onorato Toso c. 1910) was used. The photograph was taken by Bernard Pierre Wolff in 1978.^[19]

Music video [edit]

The video was shot by the band themselves on 25 Apr 1980^[xx] equally they apposite the vocal at T. J. Davidson'south studio, in Knott Mill, Manchester city centre, where the band had previously rehearsed during the early days of their career. At the first of the video, the door that opens and shuts is carved with Ian Curtis' proper name; reportedly this was the beginning of an abusive message (the residue later erased) carved into the door.

Due to poor product, the video's colour is 'browned out' at some points. Also, as the runway recorded during the recording of the video was poor, it was replaced with the single-edit recording of the song by the band's record visitor in Australia, leading to problems with the synchronisation of music and video. This edited version of the music video would later become the official version due to the improvement of sound quality.

This was the merely promotional video the band ever produced every bit Ian Curtis hanged himself 3 weeks later the video was recorded.^[21]

Legacy [edit]

Ian Curtis'due south grave marker, laid in 2008 to supplant a similarly inscribed 1 stolen earlier that year

"Love Volition Tear Usa Apart" was named NME Single of the Year in 1980,^[22] and was listed equally the best single of all time by NME in 2002.

In May 2007, NME placed it at number 19 in its listing of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems E'er, one place ahead of another Joy Sectionalisation vocal, "Manual". The vocal is likewise listed equally existence one of the 5 all-time indie songs of all time in the "All Time Indie Height 50".^[23]

In 2004, the vocal was listed by Rolling Stone mag at number 179 in its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".^[24] In 2011, the song was listed at number 181.^[25] In the 2021 update of the list, it had risen to 41.^[26]

The vocal reached number ane in the inaugural Triple J Hottest 100 music poll of 1989 and over again in 1990. When beingness interviewed for New Order Story, Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys stated that "Love Volition Tear Us Apart" was his favourite pop song of all time. At Christmas 2011, listeners of Dublin'south Phantom FM voted "Love Will Tear Us Apart" as their favourite song of all time. Furthermore, in 2012, in celebration of the NME 's 60th ceremony, a list of the 100 Greatest Songs of NME 'south Lifetime was compiled, and the list was topped past "Beloved Will Tear Us Apart". Serbian rock musician, journalist and writer Dejan Cukić wrote about "Love Will Tear Us Apart" equally one of the 45 songs that changed history of popular music in his 2007 book 45 obrtaja: Priče o pesmama. In 2015, the online mag Pitchfork ranked "Love Volition Tear Us Apart" 7th on its listing of the "200 all-time songs of the 1980s".^[27]

Following Curtis's suicide, his wife Deborah had the phrase "Love Will Tear Us Apart" inscribed on his memorial stone.^[28]

In June 2013, Mighty Box Games released Will Dear Tear Us Apart?, a browser-based video game that adapts every poetry of the vocal into a level.^[29]

Track listing [edit]

Side A

No.	Championship	Length
1.	"Dearest Will Tear U.s.a. Apart"	3:eighteen

Side B

No.	Title	Length
1.	"These Days"	three:21
2.	"Love Will Tear Usa Apart (Pennine version)[a]"	3:06

1995 cassette edition

No.	Championship	Length
ane.	"Beloved Will Tear Us Apart" (radio version)	iii:38
2.	"Love Will Tear U.s.a. Apart" (original version)	3:25

1995 12" edition

No.	Title	Length
i.	"Love Will Tear The states Apart" (original version)	iii:25
2.	"Love Will Tear Us Apart" (radio version)	3:38
3.	"Love Will Tear Usa Autonomously" (Arthur Baker remix)	iv:12
4.	"Atmosphere" (original Hannett 12")	iv:08

1995 CD one edition

No.	Championship	Length
1.	"Love Will Tear Us Apart" (radio version)	3:38
2.	"Love Will Tear Us Apart" (original version)	3:25
3.	"These Days"	iii:25
four.	"Transmission" (live)	3:44

1995 CD two edition

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Love Volition Tear Us Apart" (original version)	3:eighteen
2.	"Beloved Will Tear Us Apart '95" (radio version)	three:38
3.	"Atmosphere"	iv:08

1. ^ Not listed on original vii" single and not listed every bit being alternate version where information technology was; the "Pennine version" label did not come up into use until years afterwards.

• Track 1 recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, early March 1980
• Tracks 2 and 3 recorded at Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham, eight January 1980
• In her biography Touching from a Altitude, Deborah Curtis explains that the reason for the ii versions of the song, one on each side, was a result of Curtis's slightly different singing in each one; one song take was allegedly done when other band members told Curtis to sing "like Frank Sinatra".
• Like other Joy Segmentation releases, including Manual and An Ideal For Living, the 7" and 12" versions share the same tracks, but have different sleeves.

Charts [edit]

Weekly charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Cover versions [edit]

Chuzpe version [edit]

Chuzpe recorded a embrace version of the song in 1980, which peaked at No. 8 in Republic of austria.^[38]

Chart (1981)	Height position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Pinnacle twoscore)[38]	8

Paul Young version [edit]

English vocalizer Paul Young covered "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in 1984.

Chart (1984)	Summit position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flemish region)[39]	9
Federal republic of germany (Official High german Charts)[40]	40
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[41]	25
Netherlands (Unmarried Top 100)[42]	nine

Swans version [edit]

Beloved Will Tear Us Autonomously
EP by Swans
Released	1988
Length	16:56
Label	Production Inc.
Producer	Michael Gira
Swans chronology
Children of God (1987) Love Will Tear U.s. Apart (1988) Experience Good Now (1988)

Honey Will Tear Us Autonomously is the fourth EP by the New York band Swans, its ninth release. It features a cover version of the Joy Sectionalisation song. It was originally released in two different versions with Jarboe (black sleeve) and Gira (ruby sleeve) providing vocals, along with two semi-audio-visual versions of songs from their 1987 LP Children of God.

EP runway list [edit]

Side A

No.	Title	Length
one.	"Love Volition Tear Usa Autonomously"	three:40
2.	"Trust Me"	three:07

Side B

No.	Championship	Length
1.	"Our Beloved Lies"	half dozen:56

Charts [edit]

Chart (1988)	Peak position
UK Singles (OCC)[43]	85
UK Indie Chart[44]	2

Honeyroot version [edit]

Honeyroot reached the Britain Singles Chart in May 2005 with their ambient encompass of the song.^[45]

Nautical chart (2005)	Superlative position
UK Singles (OCC)[46]	70

See also [edit]

• Joy Division discography
• List of number-ane singles from the 1980s (New Zealand)

References [edit]

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2. ^ Curtis, Deborah (2005) [1995]. Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division. Faber and Faber. p. 141. ISBN978-0-571-17445-4.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Joy Division studio sessions". Joydiv.org . Retrieved 2 June 2013.
4. ^ Friskics-Warren, Bill (2005). I'll Have Y'all In that location: Pop Music and the Urge for Transcendence. Continuum. p. 98. ISBN0-8264-1700-0. the cascading melody of Joy Sectionalisation's sublimely gloomy postal service-punk anthem, 'Dear Volition Tear Us Apart'
5. ^ "500 Must-Accept Music Tracks". The Daily Telegraph. ane Feb 2014. p. X8.
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9. ^ Gale, Lee (17 Dec 2010). "An Ideal for Reliving". GQ. New York Metropolis. Retrieved i June 2013.
10. ^ ^{a b} Graham, Pat (2011). Instrument. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. p. forty. ISBN978-ane-4521-0895-7.
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12. ^ ^{a b} "Official Singles Nautical chart Top 100". Official Charts Visitor. Retrieved xv February 2018.
13. ^ ^{a b} "Indie Hits". Archived from the original on 16 October 2007 – via Cherry Red Records.
14. ^ ^{a b} "Disco Summit 100". Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 43. 25 October 1980. p. 33. ISSN 0006-2510.
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17. ^ Buda, Andrzej (2006). Historia rocka, popu i hip-hopu – według krytyków: 1974–2000 (in Polish). Wydawn. Niezależne (Contained editors). ISBN83-915272-8-X.
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19. ^ "Bernard Pierre Wolff: Genova, Italy, 1978: Il Staglieno". Enkiri.com. 4 Dec 2014. Retrieved 13 Feb 2017.
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21. ^ Claw, Peter (2012). Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN978-0-06-222258-nine.
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26. ^ "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Roling Stone. 15 September 2021. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
27. ^ Staff (24 Baronial 2015). "The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s". Pitchfork . Retrieved 28 Feb 2018.
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29. ^ Farokhmanesh, Megan (three June 2013). "Will Love Tear Us Apart? transforms Joy Division song into a game". Polygon. Phonation Media. Archived from the original on 8 June 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
30. ^ "Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – CHART POSITIONS PRE 1989". Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 31 Jan 2014.
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35. ^ "End of Year Charts 1984". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
36. ^ "Italian single certifications – Joy Sectionalization – Love Will Tear Us Autonomously" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 31 December 2019. Select "2019" in the "Anno" drop-downward menu. Select "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Singoli" under "Sezione".
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39. ^ "Paul Immature – Love Will Tear U.s. Apart" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved sixteen July 2013.
40. ^ "Paul Young – Love Volition Tear The states Apart" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
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External links [edit]

• "Love Volition Tear Us Autonomously" official music video on YouTube
• ""Love Will Tear Us Apart" (Joy Partitioning's version)" at Discogs (list of releases)
• ""Love Volition Tear United states Autonomously" (Swans version)" at Discogs (listing of releases)
• Usage in film and television: see "Joy Partition. Soundtrack. 'Love Will Tear Us Autonomously'" at IMDb
• Accolades archived at Acclaimed Music

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