![]() It was despair that fuelled 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' - a veritable cry from the heart - that would come to define the Manchester-born, Cheshire-raised singer for all those that came after. Curtis felt as though his life was spiralling out of control, not least because he was struggling to cope with the acclaim his band had been garlanded with from the start. Deborah was pushing for a divorce, especially when she learned that he had been having an affair with Annik Honoré, a Belgian journalist he had met during a tour of the continent. ![]() He married Deborah Woodruff in August 1975 - when he was just 19 - and their union was, largely, an unhappy one.īy the time his band, Joy Division, had released their groundbreaking debut album, Unknown Pleasures, in June 1979, his marriage was as good as over. The song was presumably floating around Ian Curtis's head when he started writing the lyrics for what would become his most emblematic and personal song. ![]() Originally released by Neil Sedaka in 1973, it was inescapable when Captain - aka Daryl Dragon - and Toni Tennille brought out their version two years later. ![]() There was no shortage of saccharine hits in the mid-1970s, but 'Love Will Keep Us Together' from US husband and wife duo Captain & Tennille came heaped with sugar.
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