Una luz abrasadora, el sol y todo lo demás

With a brief career that included two albums and several legendary concerts, Joy Division became the most successful and interesting alternative band of their generation. The formation had in its DNA the spirit of social and physical transformation that floated in the 1970s over a battered Manchester, at the dawn of Thatcherism. Protagonists of post-punk and predecessors of genres such as indie rock, the promise was dashed when their leader, Ian Curtis, killed himself before beginning a tour of the United States. A scorching light, the sun and everything in between is the chronicle of how a band resurrected a city, of how their enormous talents gathered in circumstances as haphazard as they were extraordinary, and how their music transformed a whole generation of fans, artists and musicians. It is also a story about young people who, armed with electric guitars and good literary taste, changed the world with four chords and three and a half minute songs. And it's also a story about how disease and inner demons managed to wrest from the world an amazing singer and leader, with shamanic qualities, a poetic high-voltage lyricist, a true visionary. Jon Savage, one of the greatest exponents of music journalism in the world, has gathered interviews carried out over three decades with the main actors in history to build a human and luminous story about a city and four young people who found success in it. not everyone knew how to drive.