Love Will Tear Us Apart Again by Joy Division

1980 single by Joy Partition

1980 single by Joy Sectionalization

"Love Will Tear Us Autonomously"
7" cover
Unmarried past Joy Segmentation
B-side	"These Days"
Released	June 1980 (1980-06) [1]
Recorded	March 1980[two]
Studio	Strawberry, Stockport[3]
Genre	Post-punk[4]
Length	iii:18
Label	Factory
Songwriter(due south)	Ian Curtis Peter Hook Stephen Morris Bernard Sumner
Producer(s)	Martin Hannett Joy Division
Joy Division British singles and EPs singles chronology
"Komakino" (1980) "Dear Volition Tear Us Apart" (1980) "Temper" (1980)
Alternative cover
12" comprehend
Music video
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" on YouTube

"Love Will Tear Us Autonomously" is a song by English language rock ring Joy Partition, released in June 1980 as a non-anthology unmarried. Its lyrics were inspired by lead vocalist Ian Curtis'due south marital problems and struggles with epilepsy.^[5] The unmarried was released the month later his suicide.

The song was certified platinum in the U.k., selling over 600,000 copies, and has an ongoing legacy as a defining song of the era. In 2002, NME named "Love Will Tear Us Apart" as the greatest single of all time, while Rolling Rock, in 2004 and 2011, named it ane of the 500 best songs always.

Groundwork [edit]

"Love Will Tear United states of america Apart" was written about Ian Curtis' troubled relationship with his wife, Deborah Woodruff, whom he married in August 1975. Additionally, information technology deals with his own struggles with epilepsy, which he was diagnosed with in 1979, and the overwhelming stress of holding down a twenty-four hour period job and his growing career equally a vocalist.^[6]

At a Joy Division gig in October 1979, Curtis met Belgian announcer and music promoter Annik Honoré and the two began a relationship, which caused farther distress between Curtis and Woodruff.^{[6] [vii]}

Speaking about her human relationship with Curtis in a 2010 interview with Belgian magazine supplement Focus, Honoré said:

It was a completely pure and platonic human relationship, very childish, very chaste… I did not have a sexual human relationship with Ian, he was on medication, which rendered it a not-concrete relationship. I am and then fed upwardly that people question my give-and-take or his: people can say whatever they desire, but I am the but person to have his letters… Ane of his messages says that the relationship with his wife Deborah had already finished prior to united states meeting each other.^[8]

Recording [edit]

Joy Division first recorded "Love Will Tear Us Apart" at Pennine Studios, Oldham, on 8 January 1980, along with the B-side, "These Days". This version was similar to the version the ring played live. Nonetheless, singer Ian Curtis and producer Martin Hannett disliked the results and the ring reconvened at Strawberry Studios, Stockport in March to re-record information technology.^[3] Drummer Stephen Morris recalled:

Martin Hannett played i of his mind games when we were recording it – it sounds like he was a tyrant, but he wasn't, he was dainty. We had this 1 battle where information technology was nearly midnight and I said, "Is information technology all right if I become home, Martin – it'southward been a long day?" And he said [whispers], "OK... y'all become home". So I went dorsum to the flat. Just got to sleep and the phone rings. "Martin wants yous to come up dorsum and do the snare pulsate". At four in the morning! I said, "What'southward wrong with the snare drum!?" So every fourth dimension I hear "Love Volition Tear The states Autonomously", I grit my teeth and think myself shouting downwardly the telephone, "YOU Bounder!" ... I can feel the anger in information technology even now. Information technology'due south a peachy song and it'south a great production, but I do get anguished every time I hear it.^[ix]

The guitar on the recording, a 12-cord Eko guitar, was played by Bernard Sumner.^[x] While Curtis mostly did non play guitar, to perform the vocal live, the ring taught him how to strum a D major chord. Sumner said:

Ian didn't actually desire to play guitar, but for some reason we wanted him to play it. I can't remember the reason at present... We showed him how to play D and we wrote a vocal. I wonder if that'southward why we wrote "Love Will Tear Us Autonomously", yous could drone a D through it. I recollect he played it alive because I was playing keyboards.^[10]

While Joy Sectionalization were recording, U2 were in the studio to encounter Hannett about producing their unmarried "11 O'Clock Tick Tock". U2 singer Bono said of the come across:

Talking to Ian Curtis is... or was a strange experience considering he'south very warm... he talked—it was like two people inside of him—he talked very light, and he talked very well-mannered, and very polite. Simply when he got behind the microphone he actually surged along; in that location was some other energy. It seemed similar he was just 2 people and, you know, "Dear Volition Tear Us Apart", it was like [when] that record was released... it was like, as if, there were the personalities, divide; there they were, torn apart.^[11]

Releases [edit]

It was get-go recorded for a John Pare session in November 1979, then re-recorded in January 1980 and March 1980. Information technology is the latter version that appears on the 1988 Substance album. The January 1980 version, which has become known as the "Pennine version", originally appeared equally ane of the single's B-sides.

"Love Will Tear Usa Autonomously" became Joy Partition's offset chart hitting, reaching number 13 in the UK Singles Chart.^[12] The following month, the single topped the Great britain Indie Chart.^[thirteen] The song also peaked at number 42 on the Billboard disco chart in October 1980.^[14] "Love Will Tear United states Apart" also reached number 1 in New Zealand in June 1981.^[15]

The single was re-released in 1983 and reached number 19 on the UK charts^[xvi] and number three in New Zealand during March 1984.^[15] In 1985, the seven" unmarried was released in Poland by Tonpress in different sleeve nether licence from Factory and sold over 20,000 copies.^[17] In Nov 1988, it made i more Top xl appearance in New Zealand, peaking at number 39.^[15]

Encompass photograph [edit]

According to Curtis'south wife Deborah, to create the unmarried comprehend photo, the song championship was etched upon a sheet of metallic; this was aged with acid and exposed to the weather to create the appearance of a stone slab.^[18] For the 12" version of the unmarried, a photo of a grieving angel on the Ribaudo family tomb in Genoa'southward Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno (sculpted by Onorato Toso c. 1910) was used. The photograph was taken by Bernard Pierre Wolff in 1978.^[19]

Music video [edit]

The video was shot past the band themselves on 25 April 1980^[20] equally they rehearsed the vocal at T. J. Davidson's studio, in Knott Manufactory, Manchester urban center centre, where the band had previously rehearsed during the early days of their career. At the kickoff of the video, the door that opens and shuts is carved with Ian Curtis' name; reportedly this was the get-go of an abusive bulletin (the rest later erased) carved into the door.

Due to poor production, the video'south color is 'browned out' at some points. Also, equally the track recorded during the recording of the video was poor, it was replaced with the unmarried-edit recording of the song by the band'southward tape company in Australia, leading to problems with the synchronisation of music and video. This edited version of the music video would later become the official version due to the comeback of sound quality.

This was the simply promotional video the ring always produced as Ian Curtis hanged himself iii weeks after the video was recorded.^[21]

Legacy [edit]

Ian Curtis's grave marking, laid in 2008 to replace a similarly inscribed ane stolen earlier that yr

"Dearest Will Tear Us Apart" was named NME Unmarried of the Year in 1980,^[22] and was listed as the best single of all fourth dimension by NME in 2002.

In May 2007, NME placed information technology at number xix in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever, one place ahead of another Joy Division song, "Transmission". The song is also listed as being one of the 5 best indie songs of all fourth dimension in the "All Fourth dimension Indie Top l".^[23]

In 2004, the song was listed past Rolling Rock magazine at number 179 in its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".^[24] In 2011, the vocal was listed at number 181.^[25] In the 2021 update of the list, it had risen to 41.^[26]

The song reached number ane in the inaugural Triple J Hottest 100 music poll of 1989 and again in 1990. When being interviewed for New Lodge Story, Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys stated that "Love Volition Tear Us Apart" was his favourite pop song of all fourth dimension. At Christmas 2011, listeners of Dublin's Phantom FM voted "Dearest Will Tear United states of america Apart" equally their favourite song of all fourth dimension. Furthermore, in 2012, in commemoration of the NME 's 60th anniversary, a listing of the 100 Greatest Songs of NME 's Lifetime was compiled, and the list was topped past "Dear Volition Tear Us Apart". Serbian rock musician, announcer and writer Dejan Cukić wrote about "Love Volition Tear Us Apart" as one of the 45 songs that changed history of pop music in his 2007 book 45 obrtaja: Priče o pesmama. In 2015, the online mag Pitchfork ranked "Dearest Volition Tear United states of america Apart" seventh on its list of the "200 best songs of the 1980s".^[27]

Following Curtis's suicide, his wife Deborah had the phrase "Love Will Tear United states of america Autonomously" inscribed on his memorial stone.^[28]

In June 2013, Mighty Box Games released Will Love Tear Us Apart?, a browser-based video game that adapts every verse of the song into a level.^[29]

Track listing [edit]

Side A

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Love Will Tear Us Apart"	3:eighteen

Side B

No.	Title	Length
1.	"These Days"	iii:21
2.	"Dearest Will Tear U.s. Apart (Pennine version)[a]"	3:06

1995 cassette edition

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Honey Will Tear Us Apart" (radio version)	3:38
2.	"Dear Will Tear United states Autonomously" (original version)	3:25

1995 12" edition

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Love Will Tear Us Apart" (original version)	3:25
2.	"Love Volition Tear Us Apart" (radio version)	3:38
iii.	"Love Volition Tear U.s.a. Apart" (Arthur Bakery remix)	4:12
4.	"Atmosphere" (original Hannett 12")	4:08

1995 CD 1 edition

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Love Will Tear Us Apart" (radio version)	3:38
ii.	"Dearest Will Tear Us Apart" (original version)	iii:25
3.	"These Days"	three:25
four.	"Transmission" (live)	3:44

1995 CD 2 edition

No.	Title	Length
one.	"Love Will Tear United states Apart" (original version)	3:eighteen
two.	"Dear Will Tear U.s. Autonomously '95" (radio version)	3:38
3.	"Atmosphere"	iv:08

1. ^ Not listed on original 7" single and not listed equally being alternate version where it was; the "Pennine version" label did non come into utilise until years later.

• Track 1 recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, early March 1980
• Tracks ii and 3 recorded at Pennine Audio Studios, Oldham, 8 January 1980
• In her biography Touching from a Altitude, Deborah Curtis explains that the reason for the 2 versions of the song, 1 on each side, was a result of Curtis's slightly unlike singing in each one; ane vocal accept was allegedly done when other band members told Curtis to sing "like Frank Sinatra".
• Like other Joy Division releases, including Transmission and An Platonic For Living, the 7" and 12" versions share the same tracks, but accept unlike sleeves.

Charts [edit]

Weekly charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Comprehend versions [edit]

Chuzpe version [edit]

Chuzpe recorded a cover version on the song in 1980, which peaked at No. 8 in Republic of austria.^[38]

Nautical chart (1981)	Elevation position
Republic of austria (Ö3 Austria Tiptop 40)[38]	viii

Paul Young version [edit]

English vocalist Paul Immature covered "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in 1984.

Nautical chart (1984)	Elevation position
Belgium (Ultratop fifty Flanders)[39]	nine
Germany (Official German Charts)[twoscore]	xl
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[41]	25
Netherlands (Single Tiptop 100)[42]	9

Swans version [edit]

Love Volition Tear United states of america Apart
EP by Swans
Released	1988
Length	16:56
Characterization	Product Inc.
Producer	Michael Gira
Swans chronology
Children of God (1987) Dear Will Tear Us Autonomously (1988) Feel Proficient Now (1988)

Beloved Will Tear U.s.a. Apart is the fourth EP by the New York band Swans, its ninth release. It features a embrace version of the Joy Division song. It was originally released in 2 different versions with Jarboe (black sleeve) and Gira (reddish sleeve) providing vocals, along with two semi-acoustic versions of songs from their 1987 LP Children of God.

EP track listing [edit]

Side A

No.	Title	Length
i.	"Love Will Tear Us Autonomously"	3:40
two.	"Trust Me"	iii:07

Side B

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Our Love Lies"	6:56

Charts [edit]

Nautical chart (1988)	Peak position
UK Singles (OCC)[43]	85
U.k. Indie Nautical chart[44]	two

Honeyroot version [edit]

Honeyroot reached the UK Singles Chart in May 2005 with their ambience cover of the song.^[45]

Chart (2005)	Top position
United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Singles (OCC)[46]	70

See too [edit]

• Joy Division discography
• List of number-one singles from the 1980s (New Zealand)

References [edit]

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3. ^ ^{a b} "Joy Partition studio sessions". Joydiv.org . Retrieved 2 June 2013.
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36. ^ "Italian single certifications – Joy Division – Love Will Tear United states Apart" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 31 Dec 2019. Select "2019" in the "Anno" drop-down carte. Select "Beloved Volition Tear Us Apart" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Singoli" under "Sezione".
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External links [edit]

• "Love Volition Tear U.s. Apart" official music video on YouTube
• ""Love Volition Tear Us Apart" (Joy Sectionalization'south version)" at Discogs (list of releases)
• ""Love Volition Tear The states Autonomously" (Swans version)" at Discogs (listing of releases)
• Usage in picture show and television: see "Joy Division. Soundtrack. 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'" at IMDb
• Accolades archived at Acclaimed Music

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