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NEW ORDER: "TOWARDS DEFINING THE NEW ORDER" Unquestionably the most successful independent band in the world, New Order are not the easiest of bands to get to talk to. The terrific mustique surrounding them and the public's obsession with pursuing them on record, in print, and in flesh, is only equalled by their desire to remain relatively anonymous. That their success is wholly attributable to their artistic talents and their refusal to compromise is undoubtable: that they are still, in the words of Peter Hook, ’'Four ordinary people" is something few people would believe. And yet, Neil Taylor - tentatively inquisitive - fired some questions at Peter Hook and came away with an image of a man and group very different from how the press (or lack of it) would have us believe. No big showdown, no glorified factory-romanticism, no press fanaticism, just level-headed dedication and at the end of everything an overall feeling of no sell out. "I don't t