Peter Hook will auction off his collection of Joy Division memorabilia on March 2, he reveals in an interview with Rolling Stone. The Peter Hook Signature Collection includes several iconic band-related items: a signed copy of early EP An Ideal for Living; a ticket to the Sex Pistols show at the Free Trade Hall where Hook and Bernard Sumner conceived the band; a replica of Ian Curtis’ Vox Phantom guitar from the “Love Will Tear Us Apart” video; an Electro-Harmonix chorus pedal, and more. The full catalog is set to publish online on January 21 (hard copies are available for order). “We all wanted to succeed and we worked so hard against all the odds and these items document that journey and that struggle,” Hook tells RS of Joy Division’s history. “And it hasn’t got a happy ending, which makes it more poignant.”
Hook co-founded Joy Division with guitarist Bernard Sumner in 1976. The band put out two albums before it ended in 1980 after the suicide of frontman Ian Curtis. The members would reform under the name New Order. Hook departed the group in 2007 and later became embroiled in a longstanding legal dispute over ownership of New Order and Joy Division assets. Both parties announced that a settlement was reached in 2017.
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