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Today In Music History: Ian Curtis Is Born

Posted at 6:51 AM on July 15, 2009 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Linda Ronstadt is 63.
Drummer Marky Ramone (The Ramones) is 53.
Drummer Jason Bonham is 43.


1952 - Johnny Thunders (John Genzale - guitar, vocals, The New York Dolls) was born. He died of a drug overdose on April 23rd of 1991.
1973 - Singer Ray Davies announced during a concert in London that he was leaving The Kinks. He returned after a few days.
1978 - The Rolling Stones started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Some Girls, the group's seventh No.1 album.
1985 - Nude photos of Madonna taken in 1977 appeared in this months Playboy and Penthouse Magazines.
1986 - Columbia Records dropped Johnny Cash after 28 years. Cash signed a new recording contract with Polygram the next year.
1988 - MTV banned the video for Neil Young's "This Note's For You" because it ridiculed MTV sponsors.

1956 - Ian Curtis (vocals, guitar, Joy Division) was born. He would have been 53 today. Curtis hanged himself in the kitchen of his house at the age of 23 in 1980, and the story of Curtis' troubled life, career and suicide is one of the sadder tales in rock history. But we don't want to let the day pass without marking Curtis' birth, and his sizeable contributions to the sound of what would become New Wave and subsequent decades of dark, brooding rock. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" will always stand as a classic.

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