Peter Hook Knihy

„Konečně jsme se dostali na pódium, asi o dvacet minut později, podívali se do davu – pokud se to tak dá nazvat – a tam byli úplně vepředu všichni moji kámoši a pokřikovali na mě: ,Čááááu, Hoooky. Jak to jde, Hooky?´ Culili se na mě a zdvihali palce. Pomyslel jsem si, že je fajn, že se ukázali, ale ty úsměvy a palce si mohli odpustit. My v Joy Division jsme byli velice vážní. Spíš jsme preferovali mračení se.“ Těmito slovy líčí první koncert Joy Division Peter Hook, basák a autor této knihy. V jeho autobiografii se čtenář samozřejmě ale dozví i to, co předcházelo i co následovalo, tedy jak vznikla skupina Warsaw Pakt a proč se přejmenovala na Joy Division, jaké byly další koncerty a co zapříčinilo smrt Iana Curtise.

As raw, undiluted, and fitfully funny as its predecessors... It's an unapologetic rock memoir, concerned less with legacy and more with what really went down...the book is a marvelous success. A well-written and brutally honest remembrance of the glory days of rave culture. Kirkus

The story of Joy Division told by the band's legendary bassist, Peter Hook

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The iconic bass player tells the third, arguably the most important and certainly most controversial part of his story: the New Order years

Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester's Hacienda club, Hook propelled the rise of acid house in the late 1980s, then suffered through its violent fall in the 1990s as gangs, drugs, greed and a hostile police force destroyed everything he and his friends had created. This is his memory of that era and 'it's far sadder, funnier, scarier and stranger' than anyone has imagined. As young and naive musicians, the members of New Order were thrilled when their record label Factory opened a club. Yet as their career escalated, they toured the world and had top ten hits, their royalties were being ploughed into the Hacienda and they were only being paid £20 per week. Peter Hook looked back at that exciting and hilarious time to write HACIENDA. All the main characters appear - Tony Wilson, Barney, Shaun Ryder - and Hook tells it like it was. Follow Hook throughout this roller-coaster of success, money, confusion and true faith. The perfect gift for your old school music lover.

Historia Joy Division, opowiedziana przez legendarnego basistę grupy. Jej członkowie zostali pionierami współczesnej muzyki alternatywnej i stworzyli własną definicję rocka ery post-punku. Ich brzmienie – mroczne i hipnotyczne – inspirowało wielu wybitnych artystów. Wizerunek sceniczny muzyków, niegdyś uważany za tajemniczy i niszowy, naśladują dziś rzesze młodych ludzi na całym świecie. Peter Hook, zafascynowany ruchem punkowym, oraz jego szkolny przyjaciel, Bernard Sumner, powołali zespół, do którego którego weszli utalentowany wokalista i autor tekstów Ian Curtis oraz genialny perkusista Stephen Morris. Tych czterech młodych gości wyruszyło w trasę rozklekotanym vanem i oczarowało słuchaczy w całej Wielkiej Brytanii. W 1980 roku zespół doczekał się dwóch albumów studyjnych i zamierzał podbić USA. Tragiczna śmierć Iana Curtisa zniweczyła te plany i pozostawiła głęboki ślad w sercach członków Joy Division. Hook rzuca nowe światło na samobójstwo Curtisa. Z ujmującą szczerością opowiada o przyjaźni, która łączyła członków zespołu. Wspomina także o trudnych momentach w historii Joy Division i opisuje proces, który doprowadził do zakończenia współpracy jego członków.

The acclaimed and wildly outlandish inside account of England’s most notorious music club, The Hacienda, from Peter Hook, the New York Times bestselling author of Unknown Pleasures and co-founder of Joy Division and New Order—a story of music, gangsters, drugs, and violence, available for the first time in the United States. During the 1980s, The Hacienda would become one of the most famous venues in the history of clubbing—a celebrated cultural watershed alongside Studio 54, CBGBS, and The Whiskey—until its tragic demise. Founded by New Order and Factory Records, The Hacienda hosted gigs by such legendary acts as the Stone Roses, the Smiths, Bauhaus, Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, and Happy Mondays; gave birth to the “Madchester” scene; became the cathedral for acid house; and laid the tracks for rave culture and today’s electronic dance music. But over the course of its fifteen-year run, “Madchester” descended into “Gunchester” as gangs, drugs, greed, and a hostile police force decimated the dream. Told in Hook’s uproarious and uncompromising voice, The Hacienda is a funny, horrifying, and outlandish story of success, idealism, naïveté, and greed—of an incredible time and place that would change the face and sound of modern music. The Hacienda includes 32 photographs in 16-page four-color insert.