New Order are one of the most unlikely success stories. When Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis committed suicide on May 18, 1980 on the eve of their first U.S. tour, the three remaining members of the ...

And its cause probably wasn’t helped by the chaotic Top Of The Pops performance on March 31. Performing everything live ...

Mondays can be tough – but Blue Monday apparently switches it up a notch. The third Monday of January is supposedly the ‘most depressing day of the year’, often referred to as Blue Monday. However, it ...

Tony Wilson, the impresario behind the Haçienda nightclub famous for those hazy Madchester years from the late ’80s to early ’90s, was fictionalized in the film 24 Hour Party People. He moved to ...