Joy Division’s Closer is 40 today…an album that means a lot to me, but reminds me of very dark times. So as a flip side of that dour darkness, to celebrate here’s George Michael and Morrissey in 1984 extolling their love – well partly in Moz’s case – for Joy Division. Closer was one of George Michael’s favourites, amazingly.
Oh and of course Tony Blackburn hates it, but the critique of Paul Morley’s pretentiousness by George is totally on the money. There has been a lot of dry humourless navel gazing about Joy Division, and I am not about to add to that. Also how camp is Moz in retrospect?
And my favourite from Closer is ‘Twenty Four Hours’…I know every word. Seems like many parts of my life in a song:
Oh, how I realised how I wanted time
Put into perspective, tried so hard to find
Just for one moment, thought I’d found my way
Destiny unfolded, I watched it slip away
I never realised the lengths I’d have to go
All the darkest corners of a sense I didn’t know
Just for one moment, I heard somebody call
Looked beyond the day in hand, there’s nothing there at all
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