Substance

Inside New Order

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Peter Hook: Substance (2017, HarperCollins Publishers)

English language

Published Feb. 5, 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers.

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978-0-06-230801-6
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The third book written by ex-Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter "Hooky" Hook, this is also his best. While over 700 pages long, this was a gripping read that was simultaneously both expansive and incredibly detailed.

Joy Division and New Order are bands surrounded by a lot of mystique and mythology, a great deal of it cultivated by the band themselves. They avoided the press and only grudgingly promoted their own albums. I hoped lead singer Bernard Sumner's [b:Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me|24464160|Chapter and Verse New Order, Joy Division and Me|Bernard Sumner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1439920052s/24464160.jpg|27676539] would shed some more light on the inner working of the band, but I was left disappointed. Much as he did with his previous Joy Division memoir, Hooky stepped up to deliver the nitty gritty details — the Substance, so to speak — that Sumner's book lacked.

Hooky covers the story of the …

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