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I got the Paul Morley book on Joy Division for Christmas and just finished reading it.
It's a compendium of all his writing on JD and other relevent pieces, with new writing linking them up and putting them in context, so that the text oscilates back and forth in time. It's the most personally revealing book on music I've ever read - Morley figures as largely in it as the band itself or any of the supporting cast. And although there is a certain amount of literary fireworks, the most moving parts of the book, which are a reconcilliation with his younger self and a recognition of how events shaped him, are very plain and unaffected. It must have been a incredibly difficult book to write.
The result is extraordinary - not just a book about the band itself, but about how people are obsessed and haunted by music, about the slippery relationship between time and memory and how the grieving mind pathalogically scans events long after they happened, trying to draw some kind of meaning from them. And a treasure chest of new ways one can think about this incredible band. Maybe the best book on music I've ever read. Big ups to Paul Morley!
It's a compendium of all his writing on JD and other relevent pieces, with new writing linking them up and putting them in context, so that the text oscilates back and forth in time. It's the most personally revealing book on music I've ever read - Morley figures as largely in it as the band itself or any of the supporting cast. And although there is a certain amount of literary fireworks, the most moving parts of the book, which are a reconcilliation with his younger self and a recognition of how events shaped him, are very plain and unaffected. It must have been a incredibly difficult book to write.
The result is extraordinary - not just a book about the band itself, but about how people are obsessed and haunted by music, about the slippery relationship between time and memory and how the grieving mind pathalogically scans events long after they happened, trying to draw some kind of meaning from them. And a treasure chest of new ways one can think about this incredible band. Maybe the best book on music I've ever read. Big ups to Paul Morley!