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JOY DIVISION NEW ORDER MUSIC FOR MINERS  (ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL 14 MAY 1984) VIKINGS ON TOUR 2002 FAC 383 VIKINGS

UNDER THE COVERS Every picture tells a story. Especially when it comes to classic album art... Rolling Stones Let It Bleed By the time Robert Brownjohn came to design the anarchic sleeve for Let It Bleed , the American-born graphic designer had already made his mark by working on large-scale commercial projects for the likes of Pepsi, as well as creating the title sequences for James Bond movies, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger . His pop-art sensibilities were brought to bear on the Stones’s 1969 effort, Brownjohn’s sleeve sculpture being based on the initial title of ‘Automatic Charger’ - hence the cover shot suggesting a fully stacked record player - and augmented by the ca

 

Polish 7" of Blue Monday and Thieves Like Us 1984 12" Interview Picture Disc 1984 Soundwave Cassette Magazine with New Order interview  

50 GREAT MANCHESTER ALBUMS From the Buzzcocks to Doves, Britain's second city has unleashed a succession of albums that changed the face of music. Here's your guide to the best of them.... THE DURUTTI COLUMN The Return Of The Durutti Column FACTORY 1979 Cult miserabillst plays super-sad instrumental guitar. For a movement that was meant to be about free minds and expression, punk dogmas were quick to harden. The Durutti Column, aka guitarist Vini Reilly, kicked against them profoundly with nine meditative instrumental pieces, augmented by minimal programmed rhythms and the judicious use of an Echoplex unit, courtesy of producer Martin Hannett. The seemingly improvised results were delicate and melancholic. But there’s still comfort and even joy here. IH JOY DIVISION Unknown Pleasures FACTORY, 1979 Stark and atmospheric - this is their solemn, definitive st

A LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU With 24 Hour Party People, director Michael Winterbottom set out to re-create the Factory myth in celluloid. Yet he hadn't banked on a nightmare of drugs, frayed tempers and madness to equal the real story. By Damon Wise ON FRIDAY 2 March 2001, Tony Wilson arrived at the Hacienda and found the place in chaos. Actually, he was lucky to find it standing; it had, after all, been demolished some six months previously, three years after various cash crises and public-order concerns had conspired to close it for good. He was actually in a warehouse in Ancoats, looking at FAC 451, an extraordinarily detailed re-creation of the Manchester nightclub. The original Hacienda was part of local history, built in a former yacht showroom in 1982 with the profits from Factory Records as a thank-you to the city and rewarded in its early days with almost total ingratitude as the local clientele stayed