In the decades since, his brief but incendiary career has achieved cult status. He left behind a wife, a baby daughter, and a music career that had barely begun. Ian was 23 when he died, on the eve of Joy Division’s first US tour. It is an attempt, says Deborah, to showcase Ian’s writing in a way he would have wanted. Featuring handwritten lyrics and prose drawn from his notebooks and scraps of paper he kept in ringbinders, the selection was put together with the help of journalist Jon Savage. He didn’t like songs that didn’t mean anything.”ĭeborah is talking about So This Is Permanence, a book out next week that gathers together writings by her husband Ian, the Joy Division frontman who took his life in May 1980. He used to talk about what the lyrics meant and the story behind them. “If he put a record on, we’d have to listen to absolutely everything. “Words meant such a lot to Ian,” says Deborah Curtis. She tells Jenny Stevens why he wanted to be an author – as well as a rock star A never-before-seen cache of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis’s writing is being released by his widow, Deborah.
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